PARIS, June 3, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) After reaching the second week of Roland Garros, 104th-ranked Polish teenager Iga Swiatek earned the unenviable task of facing defending champion and No. 3 seed Simona Halep. And guess what? Swiatek revealed during […]
PARIS, June 3, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) Austrian fourth seed Dominic Thiem routed the 14th seeded Gael Monfils in straight sets to reach the quarter-finals at Roland Garros on Monday. Monfils’ loss ended the French men’s campaign in the draw […]
PARIS, June 3, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) Continuing from where he had left off on Sunday, the seventh-seeded Kei Nishikori survived a determined surge from Benoit Paire to move into the quarter-finals at Roland Garros. The Japanese overcame the wasting […]
PARIS, June 3, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) Madison Keys has defined consistency in Grand Slams – even if it doesn’t feel routine to her. Still, she’s reached the quarterfinals in six of her last eight majors. On Monday, in a light […]
PARIS, June 2, 2019 Johanna Konta continued her great run of form at Roland Garros by reaching the quarterfinals in Paris. The 26th seed from Great Britain eased past No. 23 seed Donna Vekic of Croatia 6-2, 6-4 on Sunday […]
PARIS, June 2, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) The fourth-round clash between Stan Wawrinka and Stefanos Tsitsipas was touted to be the match of the day on Sunday. And with the longest finish of the 2019 French Open at five hours […]
PARIS, June 2, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) Watching Marketa Vondrousova go about her business of crafting powerful forehands mixed with deceptively accurate drop shots brings to mind a couple of other illustrious Czech left-handed stars, namely Hall of Fame great […]
PARIS, June 1, 2019 Three-time champion Serena Williams was stunned in the third round at Roland Garros on a sunny Saturday afternoon by unseeded US-American Sofia Kenin. The 37-year-old was seeded 10th in Paris, but lost 6-2, 7-5 to her […]
PARIS, June 1, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff and Croatian Borna Coric enlivened things as the evening wore on, on Saturday at Roland Garros. Their four-hour-22-minute, 4-6, 6-1, 4-6, 7-6(1), 11-9 bonanza kept even the most neutral audiences […]
PARIS, June 1, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) That quickly a week’s worth of action has sped by at the 2019 French Open. The men’s top half played their third-round matches on Saturday along with three bottom-half matches that were derailed […]
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