Jubilant:Australia's Ashleigh Barty holds the trophy.Credit:AP
"This is incredible,"she said,turning to her support team including coach Craig Tyzzer after being presented with the Coupe Suzanne-Lenglen by Chris Evert.
"It's been the most amazing journey that we've been on for the past three years and I feel like this is just the start for us. Let's go and celebrate."
Let the Barty Party begin. There is a lot to raise a glass to. Not since Margaret Court in 1973 had an Australian lifted a singles trophy at Roland Garros and this century only Lleyton Hewitt and Samantha Stosur had won major titles.
Australia's Ashleigh Barty reacts to winning her maiden grand slam at the French Open.Credit:Christophe Ena
Barty also rises to No.2 in the world,heights not reached for an Australian on the women's charts in the more than four decades since her idol and fellow Indigenous player Evonne Goolagong Cawley was in the top two. The winner's cheque,obviously the fattest of her career,was €2.3 million ($A3.73m).
It is all deserved reward for an immensely likable player who in her second coming as a tennis professional now has the world at her feet,beginning at Wimbledon in a few weeks'time.
Composed from the outset in the final,there was no theatrical collapse on the red clay or vaulting of the net when she sealed victory,with a simple smash of a ball that had bounced just over the net.
Australia's Ashleigh Barty hugs Marketa Vondrousova.Credit:AP