Francesca Schiavone of Italy has won the Women's Singles Crown in the French Open Tennis Championships. In the final in Paris today, the World Number 17 beat Samantha Stosur of Australia in straight sets 6-4, 7-6. Schiavone was the first Italian to reach a Grand Slam Final. She is also the first woman from outside the top 10, since Margaret Scriven way back in 1933, to take the French Open Crown. The Italian had made the Grand Slam final in her 39th attempt, when her rival in the semi-finals Russian fifth seed Elena Dementieva quit with a calf injury after she had dropped the first set on a tie-break.