‘She could beat anyone’: 50 years on from Sue Barker’s French Open triumph


The story marks 50 years since Sue Barker won the 1976 Roland Garros women’s singles title. It revisits her French Open triumph and the career that later made her one of Britain’s best-known TV sports presenters. The anniversary underlines how rare that British success has been at Roland Garros, with no British man or woman matching it since.

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