Stan Wawrinka, the new French Open Champion did not just stun world number one, Novak Djokovic in clinching in four sets, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4, the Coupe des Mousquetaire, his second Grand Slam championship, he made some giant killing en-route, breaking also the hearts of French tennis buffs.

First of all, he beat Roger Federer, his Swiss Compatriot in the quarter-finals. Then he went on to deny home favourite Jo-Wilfried Tsonga a chance to play before the Parisian crowd in the final, by snuffing him out in the semi-finals.

Against Novak Djokovic, in the three hour, 12 minute battle for the trophy, Wawrinka struck 59 winners, almost twice as many as Djokovic, and never let his head drop as the Serb relentlessly fended off break points.

After rallying from 0/40 down in the eighth game of the fourth set – having already been a break down – Wawrinka red-lined a backhand winner to break Djokovic and served out the contest, saving break point before finishing with another lethal backhand.

Wawrinka inflicted on Djokovic his third defeat of the season and saw his 28-match winning streak come to an end; his last defeat had come against Federer in the Dubai final

Wawrinka will return to the Top 4 in the Emirates ATP Rankings on Monday after joining Roger Federer (2009) as the only Swiss champions at the clay-court Grand Slam. The Lausanne native added to the Australian Open crown he won in January 2014 (d. Nadal), making him just the sixth active player to win multiple major titles.

The 30-year-old Wawrinka, who won the boys’ singles title in Paris in 2003 (d. Baker), is the first former junior champion to lift the men’s singles trophy since Mats Wilander in 1988.

At 30 years and 71 days, he is the third oldest first-time Roland Garros champion in the Open Era.

Having fallen to Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in the first round last year, Wawrinka is the first player to return the following year and lift the trophy at the same Grand Slam championship since Federer won at 2003 Wimbledon. One year earlier, the Swiss had fallen in his opener to Mario Ancic at the All England Club.

Wawrinka is also the first player to defeat the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds en route to the Roland Garros title since Sergi Bruguera in 1993. Bruguera defeated No. 1 Pete Sampras in the quarter-finals and No. 2 Jim Courier in the final.

On a jocular level, Wawrinka said he will be donating his unusual plaid-patterned shorts, that he sported en-route his victory against Novak Djokovic, to the Roland Garros museum

*With reports from www.atptour.com