ESPN News Services Jun 7, 2023, 09:50 AM ET Top-ranked Iga Swiatek kept her French Open title defense on track with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Coco Gauff to reach the semifinals Wednesday. In a rematch of last year’s final, Swiatek recorded another straight-sets victory over the American player as she chases her third trophy

ESPN News Services Jun 7, 2023, 08:09 AM ET Beatriz Haddad Maia scored another comeback win at the French Open, upsetting Ons Jabeur 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-1 on Wednesday to become the first Brazilian woman since 1968 to reach a Grand Slam semifinal. The 14th-seeded Haddad Maia shook off a slow start against the seventh-seeded

ESPN News Services Jun 6, 2023, 01:28 PM ET PARIS — Novak Djokovic, in his words, felt “quite sluggish, quite slow” for nearly two full sets against Karen Khachanov in the the French Open quarterfinals Tuesday. Afterward, Djokovic called it his worst stretch of the tournament, a fair assessment. He dropped the opening set, something

Associated Press Jun 6, 2023, 12:55 PM ET PARIS — French Open organizers will celebrate a Pride Day on Wednesday to mark the 10th anniversary of the first same-sex marriage in France. The country saw its first gay weddings in 2013 after then-President Francois Hollande signed a law authorizing marriage and adoption by same-sex couples,

ESPN News Services Jun 6, 2023, 12:07 PM ET PARIS — Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina accused Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka of adding fuel to the fire by standing at the net waiting for a handshake she knew would never happen at the end of their French Open quarterfinal on Tuesday. Svitolina had warned she would not shake

Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterJun 5, 2023, 09:18 PM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. Whatever sort of storylines you prefer, the French Open has provided. If you like powerhouses rolling toward huge late-round matchups, we’re still on pace for a Carlos Alcaraz–Novak Djokovic semifinal on the men’s side and an

Associated Press Jun 5, 2023, 12:40 PM ET PARIS — Coco Gauff put aside a skinned knee and a bad stretch in the first set to reach the French Open quarterfinals for the third consecutive year with a 7-5, 6-2 victory over Anna Karolina Schmiedlova on Monday. Gauff grabbed a 5-2 lead against Schmiedlova, but

Jun 5, 2023, 11:07 AM ET Last year’s runner-up Casper Ruud fought his way into the quarter-finals of the French Open as he ended the resilience of Chile’s Nicolas Jarry in a lengthy 7-5(3) 7-5 7-5 victory on Monday. The fourth seed from Norway struggled to keep things under control against claycourt specialist Jarry, who

ESPN News Services Jun 4, 2023, 04:44 PM ET PARIS — World No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka weathered a first-set implosion to beat American Sloane Stephens 7-6 (5), 6-4 on Sunday and advance to the French Open quarterfinals. The Belarusian player gave Stephens, the 2017 US Open champion, no hope at the start, unleashing a variety

ESPN News Services Jun 4, 2023, 11:17 AM ET Novak Djokovic inched closer to a record-breaking 23rd Grand Slam title by crushing Juan Pablo Varillas 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 on Sunday to reach the French Open quarterfinals. No. 3 Djokovic, who is currently tied with Rafael Nadal with 22 major titles, was untroubled by his 94th-ranked