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30 At 30 years and 4 months Mary Pierce was the oldest Grand Slam finalist since Martina Navratilova (37 at Wimbledon in 1994).

23 Justine Henin-Hardenne's lucky number at the 2005 Roland Garros. She won the title - the 23rd of her career - just three days after her 23rd birthday. The Belgian had won 23 consecutive matches on her way to the final, winning clay-court tournaments in Charleston, Warsaw and Berlin on her way to Paris.

20 The number of finals Mary Pierce has lost since she turned pro in 1989.

18 Justine Henin-Hardenne is the 18th player to have played in more than one final at the French Open.

13 Some consolation for Mary Pierce. Although she lost in the final the French woman moves from 23rd up to 13th in the WTA rankings. She had been absent from the Top Ten since 10 June 2001.

12'44 The length of time Justine spent on court in her seven French Open games at the 2005 French Open.

11 The number of years which have gone by since Mary Pierce's first final appearance at Roland-Garros.

10 For the first time in a Grand Slam tournament the tenth seed won the woman's tournament. Justine is the lowest ranked seed to take the title since Britain's Margaret Scriven took the laurels in 1933.

9 The number of consecutive games Justine won in the final. Down 0-1, she rattled off the next nine games to lead 6-1, 3-0.

8 For the 8th time in her career Mary Pierce was the best French women's finisher at Roland Garros.

7 Justine Henin-Hardenne moves to 7th spot in the WTA rankings after this win. The former world number one had been absent from the Top Ten since January.

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6 2005 was Justine Henin-Hardenne's 6th appearance at Roland Garros

5 Justine Henin-Hardenne and Mary Pierce were both competing in their fifth Grand Slam final. The first set was again decisive in that neither girl has ever gone on to win after losing the first set.

4 Roland Garros 2005 was Justine Henin-Hardenne's fourth Grand Slam title after winning the US Open in 2003, the Australian Open in 2004 and Roland Garros in 2003. In doing so she beat Mary Pierce for the fourth time in as many meetings.

3 Justine lost three sets in the course of her 2005 French Open campaign. Before beating Mary Pierce in the final the Belgian knocked out three Spaniards and then 3 Russians.

3 Mary Pierce has played in 3 French Open finals at Roland-Garros. And each time she has beaten the world number one to get there: Steffi Graf in 1994, Martina Hingis in 2000 and Lindsay Davenport in 2005.

3 Justine Henin-Hardenne is unbeaten in three final outings at Roland Garros. She won here in 2003 but also won the junior trophy here in 1997.

2 Justine Henin-Hardenne is the second woman in the Open era (since 1968) to win the tournament after saving match points. The Belgian saved two in her last sixteen game against Svetlana Kuznetsova. The first woman to achieve this feat was last year's winner Anastasia Myskina who saved a match point in her last sixteen game against… Svetlana Kuznetsova!

1 For the first time since 1968, two French-speaking women met in the final.

1 For the first time in 75 tournaments, none of the top six women's seeds made it to the final.

0 Mary Pierce has yet to take a set off Justine Henin-Hardenne in four encounters

Mary – Justine: the figures Saturday, June 4, 2005 Check out all the figures from the 2005 French Open final between Justine Henin-Hardenne (n°10) and Mary Pierce (n°21).

Bjorkman – Mirnyi crowned doubles champions Saturday, June 4, 2005 Swedish veteran Jonas Bjorkman and Belarusian teammate Max Mirnyi snatched their first Grand Slam crown together on Saturday after their three-set victory over the Bryan brothers. Bjorkman and Mirnyi, the No 2 seed, prevented the American team from repeating history on Saturday, ousting the 2003 Roland Garros champions and No3 seeds, 2-6, 6-1, 6-4 in one hour and 32 minutes. Despite his impressive doubles resume, Bjorkman, a seven-time men's doubles champion, had never captured the Roland Garros title. He reached the final here once in 1994 alongside compatriot Jan Appel. Initially everything seemed to go right for Bob and Mike Bryan, who broke their opponent's serve twice to snatch the first set in 29 minutes. But suddenly the US Davis Cup doubles team endured a monumental collapse at the start of the second set, conceding delivery twice as Bjorkman and Mirnyi, who started playing together regularly at the start of the year, stormed back to reel off five straight games to break even before rain interrupted play. When play resumed after a solid half an hour, the two teams stubbornly held onto their deliveries until the crucial seventh game where Bjorkman and Mirnyi broke away for good to go up 5-3. One game later, Mirnyi served out the contest as Bjorkman jumped into his arms to celebrate victory. Also on Saturday, John McEnroe alongside Yannick Noah lifted the men's over 45 legend's trophy while Sweden's Anders Jarryd and Michael Pernfors captured the title in the under 45 category .

Is Justine looking to get her No.1 spot back? No. As I said before the tournament, this is a transition year for us. We still don't know how Justine is going to recuperate and how she will be feeling in the coming weeks. We need another 6 or 8 weeks before the niggling injury worries are behind us. It's fabulous to have won the French Open but we have to keep our feet on the ground. A champion's health is often very fragile...and you have to preserve it. Translation: David Spratt (Sportstranslations)