Speaking on Friday, the day before her fourth French Open final in five years against Ana Ivanovic, Henin was happy to give a brief insight into what she is like away from the courts.

"Even if I look serious, I can be a crazy person," she said.

"I have a lot of humour and I talk a lot. I love to be with good people around me and I need to share everything.

"I am pretty serious in my job, but I can be very funny, maybe not in a press conference because I'm still in a professional attitude.

"But I can make the differences between my professional life and my private life. And I'm a very different person."

Henin knows that a win on Saturday will elevate her at just 25-years-old in the annals of French Open history.

She would be just the fourth woman in the history of the tournament to win three in a row after American Helen Wills Moody (1928-30), German Hilde Sperling (1935-37) and Serbian-turned American Monica Seles (1990-92).

And she would join Wills-Moody (four wins), Margaret Court (five), Steffi Graf (six) and Chris Evert (seven) among the ranks of women who have won at least four times at Roland Garros.

But Henin insists that at the moment making history is the furthest thing from her mind.

"It's going to be 50-50 tomorrow because it's a Grand Slam final and anything can happen," she said.

"Everyone is waiting for me, but I just have to forget about that and just be ready and try and play my best tennis."

"If I an win the third one in a row, that would be a great achievement.

"But right now, it's not my main goals. I'm focussed on winning the title and that's it."