TOP seed Justine Henin claimed her third straight French Open crown by ruthlessly dispatching Serbian teenager Ana Ivanovic in straight-sets. Henin, the world number one, needed little more than an hour to clinch a one-sided 6-1 6-2 rout on a sun-kissed Philippe Chatrier court.

The dominant Belgian now joins Chris Evert, Steffi Graf, Margaret Court and Helen Wills Moody in having won four or more titles at Roland Garros since 1925, the year the championships were opened to non-French players. And she becomes only the second woman in the Open era to win a trio of Roland Garros titles on the spin, replicating Monica Seles' achievement in 1992.

What is more impressive, she did it by not dropping a set in the entire tournament.

Henin had the title wrapped up in just 65 minutes and commented, "It's surreal to win for the third time in a row. I am struggling to take it in."

It was an embarrassing afternoon for Ivanovic, the 19-year-old who was appearing in her first grand slam final. Her time will surely come, but once the nerves got to her in the second game of the match, there was no coming back. Ivanovic, believe it or not, had started off the more positive of the two players.

She made a dream opening, burying a cross-court forehand winner on the very first point before going on to claim a 1-0 lead when Henin made a double-fault as she attempted to save her serve for the third time. The Serb then went 40-0 up on her own serve, but her game then crumbled around her.

Afterwards Ivanovic admitted that the key moment came as early as that second game when she failed to consolidate on her early break. "I started getting a little bit nervous, my ball toss went everywhere, but she's a very, very good player and it's tough to beat her, " said the 19-year-old.

The wily and experienced Henin took advantage and, having recovered her poise, ended up breaking back thanks to a fortunate net cord on break point. From then on it was all Henin. She held and then broke again, in the fourth game, to go 3-1 up when her despairing opponent double-faulted.

Henin, turning the screw without ever needing to perform to her maximum, had soon established a threegame cushion after holding to 15 in the fifth game.

Errors were pouring into Ivanovic's game and with the teenager's serve faltering, Henin reaped the rewards by breaking for the third successive occasion when the Serb powered a basic forehand long. Henin then held to 15 to take the set in just 34 minutes.

The second set proved to be just as one-sided, despite the crowds attempts to gee up Ivanovic. Her malfunctioning serve was broken for the fourth time in the match as a double-fault at 40-15 allowed Henin to establish a firm grip of proceedings.

Henin held her first service game of the second set to 30 to go 2-0 ahead.

Ivanovic bounced back, albeit temporarily, to hold in the next game, but nothing was coming easy for her as Henin made her work for every point. The top seed went 3-1 up with a comfortable hold and then broke to 30 when the now-beleaguered Ivanovic smashed her 23rd error of the match wildly wide.

Henin went to the brink of victory when she again held with ease, but Ivanovic managed to take the game beyond the hour mark by holding to love to make it 5-2. Henin ruined the crowd's hopes of a memorable Ivanovic comeback by clinching the contest on the first of her three match points with a punched forehand at the net.