2016 French Open Women's Doubles - French Pair Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic Win French Open Women's Doubles Title Sunday June 05,2016

French fifth seeds Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic won their first Grand Slam women's doubles title on Sunday June 05,2016 with a 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 victory over Russian duo Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina.

Garcia and Mladenovic only teamed up this year with a target of playing at the Olympics but have now won four titles after Charleston, Stuttgart and Madrid.

Seventh seeds Makarova and Vesnina had won the 2013 French Open and 2014 US Open titles.

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The last French victors in women’s doubles in the clay-court major at Roland Garros were Gail Chanfreau and Francoise Durr, who won in 1970 and then defended their title the following year.

Julien Benneteau and Edouard Roger-Vasselin did win the men’s doubles in 2014, but they were the first French champions since Yannick Noah and Henri Leconte in 1984. Noah was the last French man to win the single’s title, in 1983.
Mary Pierce was France’s last women’s singles champion, in 2000.