The era of 1989-1980 in French Open tennis tournaments has been an alternative win pattern which was shared by two famous male tennis players, Ivan Lendl and Mats Wilander.
Maximum French Open Championships were claimed by these two tennis players during this decade. Lendl and Wilander faced each other several times in the finals as well.
Lendl and Wilander won the same number of French Open Grand Slams (4) in their tennis careers and were considered great rivals of the ’80s. Michael Chang, the youngest tennis player ever to have won the grand slam also claimed the French Open title.
The list of male winners and runner-ups of the French Open tennis championship during 1989-1980 is as follow:
1989-French Open Tennis winner and runner-up
- Winner (male)-1989: Michael Chang
- Runner-up (male)-1989: Stefan Edberg
1988-French Open Tennis winner and runner-up
- Winner (male)-1988: Mats Wilander
- Runner-up (male)-1988: Henri Leconte
1987-French Open Tennis winner and runner-up
- Winner (male)-1987: Ivan Lendl
- Runner-up (male)-1987: Mats Wilander
1986-French Open Tennis winner and runner-up
- Winner (male)-1986: Ivan Lendl
- Runner-up (male)-1986: Mikael Pernfors
1985-French Open Tennis winner and runner-up
- Winner (male)-1985: Mats Wilander
- Runner-up (male)-1985: Ivan Lendl
1984-French Open Tennis winner and runner-up
- Winner (male)-1984: Ivan Lendl
- Runner-up (male)-1984: John McEnroe
1983-French Open Tennis winner and runner-up
- Winner (male)-1983: Mats Wilander
- Runner-up (male)-1983: Ivan Lendl
1982-French Open Tennis winner and runner-up
- Winner (male)-1982: Mats Wilander
- Runner-up (male)-1982: Guillermo Vilas
1981-French Open Tennis winner and runner-up
- Winner (male)-1981: Bjorn Borg
- Runner-up (male)-1981: Ivan Lendl
1980-French Open Tennis winner and runner-up
- Winner (male)-1980: Bjorn Borg
- Runner-up (male)-1980: Vitas Gerulaitis
In 80’s, the times changed for French Open as Bjorn Borg saw his downfall, or who else would have been able to rule the clay!
