PARIS/WASHINGTON, June 1, 2022 (by Michael Dickens) Daria Kasatkina won an all-Russian quarterfinal to reach her first Grand Slam semifinal at the French Open Wednesday afternoon in Paris. She may have been nervous inside, but on the outside, she broke […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, May 31, 2022 (by Michael Dickens) The blockbuster quarterfinal clash between Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal at the French Open Tuesday evening is one that every tennis fan around the world had looked forward to with great anticipation since […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, May 31, 2022 (by Michael Dickens) World No. 3 Alexander Zverev has reached his second straight French Open semifinal. As a sunny Tuesday afternoon morphed into evening, the No. 3 seed from Germany scored an epic 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, May 30, 2022 (by Michael Dickens) Young stars with big names, Hoger Rune and Stefanos Tsitsipas put on quite a show on the main stage of Court Phillipe-Chatrier Monday at the French Open in Paris. It lasted a minute […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, May 29, 2022 (by Michael Dickens) Rafael Nadal isn’t the King of Clay for nothing. On Sunday, inside an electric atmosphere of Court Philippe-Chatrier at Stade Roland Garros, Nadal, a 13-time winner of the French Open, put on a […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, May 28, 2022 (by Michael Dickens) About the only thing that No. 1 seed Iga Swiatek struggled with during her third-round match at the French Open happened after she had secured a 6-3, 7-5 win over No. 95 Danka […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, May 27, 2022 (by Michael Dickens) Diego Schwartzman has often played at his best in the French capital city of Paris. He was a semifinalist at Roland Garros two years ago and a quarterfinalist last year. He arrived at […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, May 26, 2022 (by Michael Dickens) Paula Badosa is always happy when nobody notices how nervous she is on court. While the emotions may be attributable to being one of the top-ranked players in the world – the 24-year-old […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, May 25, 2022 (by Michael Dickens) Two nights ago, former World No. 1 Angelique Kerber of Germany survived a thrilling three-set drama with Poland’s Magdalena Frech, saving two match points to win and advance to the second round. For […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, May 25, 2022 (by Michael Dickens) Sometimes, the final score doesn’t always tell the entire story. Take Jo-Wilfried Tsonga for instance. The 37-year-old standard bearer of a current-but-aging generation of French players that includes Gaël Monfils, Gilles Simon, Richard […]
