PARIS, June 8, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) It took four hours and 13 minutes of play interspersed with several rain delays and an entire day’s washout. But Austrian fourth seed Dominic Thiem finally got the job done at Roland Garros, […]
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. […]
PARIS, June 7, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) When Ashleigh Barty and Amanda Anisimova walk out on Court Suzanne Lenglen to play their women’s semifinal singles semifinal match at Roland Garros on Friday, it will be a far cry from the semifinal […]
PARIS, June 6, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) Ruthless. That is the only way to describe fourth-seeded Austrian Dominic Thiem’s performance against Russian 10th seed, Karen Khachanov. Thiem dropped just eight games in his hour-and-47-minute long quarter-final, winning 6-2, 6-4, 6-2. […]
PARIS, June 6, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) A day after rain washed out both remaining women’s quarterfinal-round matches at Roland Garros, the Parisian skies were smiling on Thursday. Each of the four competitors – defending champion Simona Halep, teenager Amanda […]
PARIS, June 4, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) When Johanna Konta of Great Britain and No. 7 seed Sloane Stephens from the United States walked out on Court Philippe Chatrier Tuesday afternoon amid partially overcast skies and very heavy, humid conditions […]
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) 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 […]
