11:05 AM ET India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Dutch partner Matwe Middelkoop saved two match points but their dream run at the French Open ended with a semifinal defeat to Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Rojer on Thursday. Bopanna and Middelkoop, seeded 16th, lost 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (8-10) to the 12th seeded pair from El Salvador
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7:31 PM ET ESPN News Services Casper Ruud has become the first man from Norway to reach the semifinals at a Grand Slam tournament, getting that far at the French Open by beating 19-year-old Holger Rune of Denmark 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-3. The eighth-seeded Ruud’s 3-hour, 15-minute victory at Court Philippe Chatrier began Wednesday
10:55 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — Iga Swiatek benefited from the chair umpire’s no-call on a double bounce that gave her a key first-set service break during a match-altering five-game run and the French Open’s No. 1 seed moved into the semifinals with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Jessica Pegula on Wednesday. Swiatek extended
7:04 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — French Open tournament director Amelie Mauresmo says nine of the 10 night sessions at Roland Garros this year involved men’s matches because women’s tennis currently has less “appeal.” Speaking Wednesday at the traditional second-week news conference to recap the clay-court Grand Slam, Mauresmo, the tournament’s first female tournament
2:50 AM ET Sania Mirza and her Czech partner Lucie Hradecka’s valiant effort went in vain as American duo Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula prevailed in the women’s doubles third round of the French Open in Paris on Tuesday. Despite a combined age of 72 years, Mirza and Hradecka produced some high quality tennis but
8:16 PM ET PARIS — Eventually Rafael Nadal will retire, just like he’s told us he will. But it won’t be today — or even yesterday — when this punch-for-punch quarterfinal started against Novak Djokovic. The two old, grizzled heavyweights of the sport have traded blows since they first met on this patch of clay
1:00 PM ET Zenia D’Cunha Karman Kaur Thandi was poised to be the next big thing in Indian women’s tennis. In August 2018, she reached a career-best singles rank of 196 when she was just 20, only the sixth Indian woman to have cracked the top 200 of the WTA. But a cruel combination of
3:06 AM ET Andy Murray said on Monday the decision to strip Wimbledon of its ranking points was not a “great move” by the ATP and WTA Tours. Wimbledon had its ranking points taken away by the men’s ATP and women’s WTA after the grasscourt major opted to exclude players from Russia and Belarus because
11:30 AM ET ESPN News Services PARIS — Marin Cilic, the 2014 U.S. Open champion, continued an impressive run Monday at the French Open, defeating Daniil Medvedev 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 in the last match of the day. Medvedev is the 2021 U.S. Open champion and the No. 2 seed here, but he struggled Monday, and
8:28 AM ET ESPN News Services Jessica Pegula became the third American woman to reach the quarterfinals at the French Open on Monday, but Madison Keys failed to join the party as she crashed out after a sizzling start to her fourth-round match at Roland Garros. After losing the first set, Pegula fought back to