PARIS, May 22, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) No. 2 women’s seed Jil Teichmann of Switzerland, who three weeks ago lifted her first WTA tour-level trophy when she won the Prague Open, was upset in the first round of French Open […]
PARIS, May 20, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) With the beginning of the French Open less than a week away, qualifying for 16 open spots in the men’s 128-player singles draw began at Roland Garros on Monday. Those who earned positions […]
PARIS, May 17, 2019 (Press Release) There will be 128 male contenders in the starting blocks, all competing to clinch one of sixteen places in the main draw. Twelve Frenchmen are hoping to play their way into one of these […]
PARIS, October 31, 2018 Rafael Nadal withdrew from the Rolex Paris Masters. The top seed from Spain was scheduled to play his second round match against compatriot Fernando Verdasco and will be replaced by Tunisian lucky loser Malek Jaziri. Nadal […]
WASHINGTON, June 10, 2018 (by Michael Dickens) The last time that Rafael Nadal and Dominic Thiem met, last month in the ATP Masters 1000 Mutua Madrid Open, the 24-year-old Austrian ended Nadal’s 21-match and 50-set winning streaks on clay. Everyone […]
USTA Press Release, June 9, 2018 Fourteen-year old Coco Gauff, of Delray Beach, Fla., won an all-American French Open girls’ singles final Saturday morning in Paris, defeating 16-year old Caty McNally, of Cincinnati, 1-6, 6-3, 7-6(1). Gauff, at 14 years, […]
PARIS, June 9, 2018 World No. 1 Simona Halep secured her maiden Grand Slam title with a relentless performance, winning Saturday’s singles final at Roland Garros against US-American Sloane Stephens. The 26-year-old from Romania had lost her three previous major showpiece encounters – […]
WASHINGTON, June 9, 2018 (by Michael Dickens) On Sunday, top seed Rafael Nadal will face No. 7 seed Dominic Thiem for the 2018 French Open championship. The winner gets to hoist the Coupe de Mousquetaires. Nadal has won Roland Garros […]
PARIS, June 8, 2018 First-time Grand Slam finalist Dominic Thiem will challenge Rafael Nadal for the French Open title on Sunday. Thiem defeated Marco Cecchinato of Italy 7-5, 7-6 (12-10), 6-1. The 24-year-old hit 39 winners and broke serve four times to […]
PARIS, June 7, 2018 Simona Halep has reached her third French Open final in four years. The World No. 1 from Romania knocked out 2016 Roland Garros champion Garbiñe Muguruza 6-1, 6-4 on Thursday afternoon. Halep capitalized on six of her 10 break […]
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