WASHINGTON, May 29, 2018 (by Michael Dickens) Rain halted play for the second straight day in the 2018 French Open. Throughout Stade Roland Garros, for about an hour on Tuesday afternoon, play was suspended on all courts. It further delayed the resumption […]
WASHINGTON, May 28, 2018 (by Michael Dickens) The best road show of the year got better by the hour as the luckiest loser of them all, Marco Trungelliti of Argentina, drove into the second round of the 2018 French Open after he […]
PARIS, May 28, 2018 World No. 1 and 10-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal is leading 6-4, 6-3, 0-3 over Italian lucky loser Simone Bolelli on Court Philippe Chatrier before the match was suspended due to rain and postponed to Tuesday. […]
PARIS, May 28, 2018 After 2006 and 2014, Stan Wawrinka has lost in the opening round at Roland Garros for the third time. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez beat the Swiss in Paris four years ago, which saw Wawrinka become the first reigning Australian […]
WASHINGTON, May 27, 2018 (by Michael Dickens) There’s a lot of passion and personality that shines with each Grand Slam – and there’s been 201 Grand Slams in the Open Era dating back to 1968. For the next fifteen days, the […]
WASHINGTON, May 25, 2018 (by Michael Dickens) Within a few moments after the 2018 French Open women’s draw ceremony began at L’Orangerie on Thursday night, the mystery of whom unseeded Serena Williams would play first was resolved. After all, the three-time former French […]
WASHINGTON, May 24, 2018 (by Michael Dickens) The French Open, the second tennis major of 2018, kicks off on Sunday at Stade Roland Garros with the popular and endearing Rafael Nadal once again on top of the world rankings – not to mention being the undisputed […]
International Blog – Michael Dickens Roland Garros and modern art have enjoyed a long, steady and tasteful relationship. It’s a very French thing. In a sport where a player’s instinct and spontaneous movement creates beautiful art out of work during every rally – especially on […]
TA Press Release, May 18, 2018 Rising Aussie star Alex De Minaur (NSW) has received a wildcard into the main draw of Roland Garros. The world No.106-ranked teen is the first recipient of a Tennis Australia reciprocal wildcard into the season’s second […]
STARNBERG, May 15, 2018 To say that Rafael Nadal has been dominant on clay courts has been an understatement, having won 50 straight sets on the surface dating back to 2017. But that streak was ended during the Mutua Madrid […]
