PARIS, June 11, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) French Tennis Federation president Bernard Giudicelli and Roland Garros tournament director Guy Forget held a joint press conference on Sunday to express their overall satisfaction regarding the 2019 French Open championships. They disclosed […]
PARIS, June 10, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) Twelve finals, twelve titles, across two different decades. Such has been the tale of Rafael Nadal, winning the French Open a dozen times. He has cut across generations of rivals and has had […]
PARIS, June 9, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) Ashleigh Barty went from being a tennis prodigy who briefly traded her racquet for a cricket bat to becoming a skilled tennis professional with a solid all-court game. Only 23 years-old, the native […]
PARIS, June 9, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) Spanish World No. 2 Rafael Nadal made it an even dozen of titles in Paris as he defeated Austria’s Dominic Thiem 6-3, 5-7, 6-1, 6-1 in a riveting three-hour one-minute final on Sunday. […]
PARIS, June 8, 2019 Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies clinched the doubles trophies at Roland Garros. In their first ever appearance in Paris, the German duo defeated the all-French combination of Jeremy Chardy and Fabrice Martin 6-2, 7-6(3) in Saturday’s […]
PARIS, June 8, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) The Paris skies above Roland Garros were ominous, mostly cloudy and grey for Championship Saturday. Less than an hour before the scheduled 3 p.m. start of the French Open women’s singles final, they […]
PARIS, June 8, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) Girls’ No. 1 seed Leylah Annie Fernandez from Canada beat eighth seed Emma Navarro of the United States, 6-3, 6-2, in one hour and 25 minutes to become the first Canadian to win […]
PARIS, June 8, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) When the French Open began a fortnight ago in Paris, who could have predicted that World No. 8 and eighth-seeded Ashleigh Barty from Australia and unseeded Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic, two […]
PARIS, June 7, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) Spaniard Rafael Nadal ended Roger Federer’s five-match winning streak against him, as he defeated the Swiss 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 in two hours and 25 minutes in their semi-final at Roland Garros. Despite the […]
PARIS, June 7, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) On a cold, damp and windy Friday afternoon at Roland Garros, they played on. In a match in which it seemed possessing the lead might have seemed dangerous, the semifinal that pitted No. […]
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