PARIS, June 7, 1980 -- Chris Evert Lloyd, undefeated since she returned from a three-month layoff from tennis, today routed Romanian Virginia Ruzici, 6-0, 6-3, to win her fourth French Open title ...

The loss snapped an 18-match winning streak for Swiatek dating to last September and marked the earliest loss by a No. 1 seed at the Australian Open since 1979, when Virginia Ruzici lost to Mary ...

Their father, Richard, had watched the women’s singles finals of the 1978 French Open and heard that the winner, Virginia Ruzici, earned $40,000 in prize money.

The first was the very success of the tour itself. As the story goes, in June 1978, Richard Williams saw Virginia Ruzici earn $40,000 for winning Roland Garros that year.

Romania for the first time in 36 years has another female tennis player in the French Open Final, long after Virginia Ruzici won the Women's Singles final in 1978. Simona Halep who has been ...