My Top 5 talking points from Roland Garros 2016

Sportswriter and broadcaster David Fearnhead, Women's Tennis Blog's long-time contributor, shares his Top 5 talking points from the 2016 French Open.

A NEW FLAME HAS COME …

So we have a new champion, and our third straight first-time Grand Slam winner after Garbine Muguruza followed Flavia Pennetta in New York and Angelique Kerber in Melbourne.

Before the final was played, Muguruza was 10/1 to win Wimbledon, they’ve now shortened the odds to 11/2 and I’m convinced they will shorten further. Muguruza has all the accoutrements to do well on grass. For a tall woman she has tremendous foot speed, and we saw only last year how effective she can be, when she charged into the Wimbledon final to face…