PARIS/WASHINGTON, June 8, 2024 (by Michael Dickens) Iga Swiatek was all business from first ball to last one in her latest Roland-Garros final. On a beautiful Saturday in Paris, and with a full house of fans packing Court Philippe-Chatrier, the […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, June 7, 2024 (by Michael Dickens) At 21, Carlos Alcaraz of Spain has become the youngest man to reach a Grand Slam title match on all three surfaces: hard, grass and now clay. On Friday afternoon, Alcaraz reached his first […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, June 6, 2024 (by Michael Dickens) Two-time defending champion and this year’s top seed Iga Swiatek continued her reign of Roland-Garros by advancing to her third straight French Open final on a sun-splashed Thursday afternoon in Paris. The 23-year-old, […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, June 6, 2024 (by Michael Dickens) Seventeen-year-old Mirra Andreeva is gifted and mature beyond her years on a tennis court. World No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka, who hadn’t tasted a major loss this year after winning the Australian Open and […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, June 5, 2024 (by Michael Dickens) At age 28, Italy’s Jasmine Paolini won the biggest tennis match of her life Wednesday afternoon at Roland-Garros. It happened on a beautiful and sunny, late-spring afternoon on Court Philippe-Chatrier – the biggest […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, June 5, 2024 (by Michael Dickens) After Carlos Alcaraz continued his mastery of Stefanos Tsitsipas with his sixth career victory over the Greek star, this one a 6-3, 7-6 (3), 6-4 victory in the quarterfinals of Roland-Garros before an […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, June 4, 2024 (by Michael Dickens) As Tuesday afternoon’s Roland-Garros men’s first quarterfinal match between Jannik Sinner and Grigor Dimitrov was underway on Court Philippe-Chatrier under partly-cloudy skies, off the court, it was defending champion and current World No. […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, June 4, 2024 (by Michael Dickens) The all-court quality that Alexander Zverev and Holger Rune showed during their late-night fourth-round tussle at Roland-Garros, which started as the featured Monday night-session match but didn’t end until early Tuesday morning, was […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, June 3, 2024 (by Michael Dickens) In a two-hour, 49-minute battle among two of the fiercest competitors in men’s pro tennis, Australia’s Alex de Minaur recovered from a set down to earn his first Roland-Garros quarterfinal berth Monday afternoon. […]
FLUSHING, N.Y., June 3, 2024 (USTA Press Release) Tickets for the 2024 US Open go on sale to the general public today, as the USTA proudly unveils its theme for the 2024 US Open: “Celebrating the Power of Tennis.” This year’s theme […]
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