PARIS, May 28, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) Drama played out at Roland Garros as the first round of its 2019 edition came to a close. A certain twenty-something player disappointed while a 40-year-old reiterated what made him so special on […]
PARIS, May 28, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) World No. 1 Naomi Osaka arguably played one of her worst sets of tennis in recent memory during her first-round match against 90th-ranked Anna Karolina Schmiedlova of Slovakia at Roland Garros on Tuesday […]
PARIS, May 28, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) The last of the first-round matches at Roland Garros were played on Tuesday, with the few remaining players in the top-half of the singles draw filling up the roster of play. Among the […]
PARIS, May 28, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) Bianca Andreescu of Canada, who has been sidelined since Miami with a right shoulder injury, came back to finish her suspended match with No. 118 lucky loser Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic […]
PARIS, May 28, 2019 Rudolf Molleker fell to Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan in the first round at Roland Garros on Monday afternoon. In a highly-entertaining encounter on Court 13, the 18-year-old German lost 5-7, 7-6(4), 1-6, 6-7(2) in two hours […]
PARIS, May 27, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) The second session of Monday’s play at Roland Garros extended the theme of favourites winning and upsets occurring. The Frenchmen, too, made merry as the day wore on even as the Americans’ results […]
PARIS, May 27, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) When three-time French Open champion Serena Williams began her 2019 Roland Garros campaign against Vitalia Diatchenko, ranked 83rd, from Russia, all eyes – at least those who weren’t focused on Serena’s Nike collection […]
PARIS, May 27, 2019 (by Sharada Rajogapalan) If day one at the 2019 French Open did not have too many upsets, day two was just the opposite. Both in the men’s and women’s draw, upsets lined up as if they […]
PARIS, May 27, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) Woe has been two-time Roland Garros quarterfinalist Caroline Wozniacki, currently ranked 13th, who earlier this year dropped out of the Top 10 for the first time since May 2017. Since losing in the […]
PARIS, May 26, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) Stefanos Tsitsipas, Matteo Berrettini, Marin Cilic and Grigor Dimitrov among others set the ball rolling on the first day of the 2019 French Open. The baton of action was carried onward later in the […]
