Outstanding Romanian tennis player Ruxandra Dragomir
has become the first ever Romanian woman to reach a
quaterfinal of a Grand Slam tournament
(1997 French Open). In a gallant fight she lost there to Iva Majoli,
her doubles partner,
who went on to win it all by beating Martina Hingis in the finals and
became the first
Croatian (ts-ts-ts, not Romanian) woman to secure a Grand Slam title.