What will stay with us from the 2009 French Open at Roland Garros…

•    Rafael Nadal’s hot pink Nike shirt…

•    Frenchwoman, Amelie Mauresmo, losing badly in the first round after playing so well (again) in recent months…

•    Andy Roddick reaching the second week and then pleading (unsuccessfully) to have his match against talented Frenchman, Gael Monfils, suspended for darkness

•    Maria Sharapova, back on Tour again…

•     Svetlana Kuznetsova coming through to beat Serena Williams, Samantha Stosur and Dinara Safina in succession en route to her second Grand Slam title

•    Rafael Nadal looking weary, deflated and unsure of himself in the middle of his match against Robin Soderling which Rafa eventually lost to break his four year unbeaten streak at Roland Garros

•    Robin Soderling following up his win over Nadal with stellar play all the way to the Final

•    Roger Federer collapsing to his knees in tears (of joy) after (finally) winning the French Open title, achieving a career Grand Slam and tying Pete Sampras’ record of 14 Grand Slam singles titles

•    Steffi Graf (“Golden Grand Slam winner”) presenting Svetlana Kuznetsova with the trophy and Andre Agassi (another member of the career Grand Slam club) presenting Roger Federer with his trophy

•    The tennis world needs tighter security to protect the welfare of its star players…