7:45 AM ET Associated Press Former runner-up Sloane Stephens advanced to the fourth round of the French Open by beating 18th-seeded Karolina Muchova 6-3, 7-5. Muchova had 23 winners compared to 22 for Stephens but the Czech player made 32 unforced errors to 25 for the unseeded American. Stephens lost the final at Roland Garros

12:40 PM ET ESPN News Services Having never previously reached the second round at the French Open, two-time Grand Slam finalist Daniil Medvedev is now into the fourth round at Roland Garros. The second-seeded Russian used 10 aces to beat No. 32 Reilly Opelka 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 and said the overcast conditions helped him to

3:44 PM ET Associated Press American Taylor Fritz says he will require surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee and hopes to recover in time to play at Wimbledon. Fritz was hurt on the final point of his second-round loss to Dominik Koepfer at the French Open, and he left the court

6:35 AM ET Associated Press The Paris prosecutor’s office said a tennis player suspected of participating in a match-fixing scheme last year has been arrested in Paris during the French Open. French newspaper Le Parisien reported that the player is Yana Sizikova of Russia. The prosecutor’s office told The Associated Press that a “women’s international

12:32 PM ET ESPN News Services Amid an unusual silence on an empty center court at the French Open, defending champion Rafael Nadal celebrated his 35th birthday with something very familiar: another victory against Richard Gasquet. Nadal won 6-0, 7-5, 6-2 against Gasquet to improve to 17-0 for his career against the Frenchman since they

4:45 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com The expectations were high for Ashleigh Barty entering Roland Garros. The world No. 1 won the French Open title in 2019, and she showed evidence of her returned championship form on clay during lead-in events after opting out of the event in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. She collected

9:50 AM ET As he approaches his 23rd birthday in August, Stefanos Tsitsipas has already achieved more than most tennis players ever will: seven career titles (including the 2019 ATP Finals and the 2021 Monte Carlo Masters, his first 1000-level win), three Grand Slam semifinal appearances. Entering the French Open, he had won 25 matches

6:20 PM ET Simon Cambers PARIS — At last year’s French Open, amid the gloom and cold, one thing shone more brightly than anything else: the drop shot. In French, it’s called l’amorti, (the literal translation of which means “cushioning”), and during the cooler, autumn conditions of the 2020 pandemic-altered Roland Garros, it was the

5:36 PM ET Associated Press PARIS — French Open organizers say that both members of a men’s doubles team have tested positive for COVID-19 and have been dropped from the tournament. The players were placed in quarantine. The tournament did not identify them. The first team on the alternate list for men’s doubles will get

8:46 AM ET Associated Press Sixth-seeded Alexander Zverev hit 15 aces on his way to the third round at the French Open. He got there by beating a familiar face. Zverev and Roman Safiullin have known each other since they were 4 years old. The Russian qualifier put up a good fight, but Zverev went