WASHINGTON, March 18, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) When the French Open, one of the four Grand Slam tournaments, was postponed Tuesday, it became the latest worldwide sporting event to fall victim of the coronavirus pandemic. At first glance, the move […]
PARIS, June 11, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) French Tennis Federation president Bernard Giudicelli and Roland Garros tournament director Guy Forget held a joint press conference on Sunday to express their overall satisfaction regarding the 2019 French Open championships. They disclosed […]
PARIS, June 10, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) Twelve finals, twelve titles, across two different decades. Such has been the tale of Rafael Nadal, winning the French Open a dozen times. He has cut across generations of rivals and has had […]
PARIS, June 9, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) Ashleigh Barty went from being a tennis prodigy who briefly traded her racquet for a cricket bat to becoming a skilled tennis professional with a solid all-court game. Only 23 years-old, the native […]
PARIS, June 9, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) Spanish World No. 2 Rafael Nadal made it an even dozen of titles in Paris as he defeated Austria’s Dominic Thiem 6-3, 5-7, 6-1, 6-1 in a riveting three-hour one-minute final on Sunday. […]
PARIS, June 8, 2019 Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies clinched the doubles trophies at Roland Garros. In their first ever appearance in Paris, the German duo defeated the all-French combination of Jeremy Chardy and Fabrice Martin 6-2, 7-6(3) in Saturday’s […]
PARIS, June 8, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) The Paris skies above Roland Garros were ominous, mostly cloudy and grey for Championship Saturday. Less than an hour before the scheduled 3 p.m. start of the French Open women’s singles final, they […]
PARIS, June 8, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) Girls’ No. 1 seed Leylah Annie Fernandez from Canada beat eighth seed Emma Navarro of the United States, 6-3, 6-2, in one hour and 25 minutes to become the first Canadian to win […]
PARIS, June 8, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) When the French Open began a fortnight ago in Paris, who could have predicted that World No. 8 and eighth-seeded Ashleigh Barty from Australia and unseeded Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic, two […]
PARIS, June 7, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) Spaniard Rafael Nadal ended Roger Federer’s five-match winning streak against him, as he defeated the Swiss 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 in two hours and 25 minutes in their semi-final at Roland Garros. Despite the […]
