12:43 PM ET Associated Press PARIS — Rafael Nadal‘s French Open set streak is over. His pursuit of a record-breaking 21st Grand Slam title — including 14 at Roland Garros — remains very much intact. Nadal shrugged off dropping a set in Paris for the first time in two years and regained control Wednesday, whipping
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1:58 PM ET ESPN News Services PARIS — Stefanos Tsitsipas and Alexander Zverev both have been viewed as potential future stars of tennis. Both have come close to Grand Slam titles. Now the pair of 20-somethings will meet each other for a berth in the French Open final after straight-set quarterfinal victories Tuesday. The No.
3:13 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Tamara Zidansek was a three-time junior national snowboarding champion in Slovenia. She only picked up a tennis racket because her snowboarding club offered lessons in the summer. By age 12, she made the decision to focus solely on tennis — simply because she hated the cold weather. Now, she’s two
10:18 AM ET Simon Cambers PARIS — On Day 3 of this year’s French Open, Gael Monfils stood, arms aloft, soaking in the applause from the crowd on Court Suzanne Lenglen. Eight months after Roland Garros was held with only 1,000 fans allowed on-site each day, here was one of France’s favorite sons, lapping up
12:57 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Coco Gauff became an overnight sensation in 2019 after defeating Venus Williams in the first round of Wimbledon. She was a 15-year-old qualifier with little name recognition outside of tennis circles and had just convincingly pulled off the win over her childhood hero and five-time tournament champion. Gauff’s global celebrity
7:17 AM ET ESPN News Services PARIS — A day after Serena Williams was eliminated from the French Open, 17-year-old Coco Gauff showed the future in tennis for American women is bright. Gauff served superbly to reach her first Grand Slam quarterfinal with a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Ons Jabeur on Monday. Gauff lost only
11:21 AM ET ESPN News Services PARIS — Novak Djokovic went from a big deficit to his best tennis at the French Open on Monday, erasing a two-set deficit and grabbing 13 games in a row in a dominant display before his opponent stopped playing because of an injury. The result officially goes into the
5:09 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com The stars seemed to be aligning for Serena Williams. By the time she took the court for her fourth-round match against Elena Rybakina at the French Open on Sunday, Williams was the highest-seeded player and the only top-20 player remaining on her side of the draw. In fact, she was
6:30 PM ET Simon Cambers When Roger Federer returned to the ATP Tour in Doha in March, having been out for 13 months following two knee operations, he made one thing clear: His goal was Wimbledon. At 39, the Swiss is focused on the place where he has the best chance for glory: the grass
10:39 AM ET Roger Federer has withdrawn from the French Open saying he needs to listen to his body after having two knee surgeries last summer. “After discussions with my team, I’ve decided I will need to pull out of Roland-Garros today,” Federer said in a statement. “After two knee surgeries and over a year
7:45 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com The much-hyped third-round clash at the French Open between Americans Jennifer Brady and Coco Gauff didn’t end the way either had hoped. After Gauff won the first set in just 19 minutes, Brady retired with a foot injury, later revealing it was plantar fasciitis that first flared up at the
11:52 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — Former US Open champion Sloane Stephens wants more discussions about mental health to help people both inside and outside of tennis talk freely about what is troubling them. “Absolutely. I feel like it’s not spoken about enough,” she said Saturday after winning her third-round match at the French
10:20 AM ET ESPN News Services Novak Djokovic has reached the fourth round of the French Open for a record 12th consecutive year. The No. 1-seeded Djokovic has not been pushed yet in any match — or any set, really — in Week 1 at Roland Garros. His latest victory was by a 6-1, 6-4,
3:44 PM ET Associated Press American Taylor Fritz says that he will require surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee and that he 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
7:38 AM ET ESPN News Services Serena Williams recovered from a 4-1 deficit in the second set to post a 6-4, 6-4 win over fellow American Danielle Collins in the third round of the French Open. Williams verbally urged herself to become more aggressive and move her feet more when she trailed in the second
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
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