PARIS, May 30, 2019 Novak Djokovic won his 23rd straight Grand Slam match with a 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 victory over Swiss lucky loser Henri Laaksonen on Thursday and advanced to the third round at Roland Garros for the 14th consecutive […]
PARIS, May 30, 2019 Dominic Thiem faced a tricky test on Thursday by taking on Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan in the second round at Roland Garros. The No. 4 seed from Austria, however, handled the unconvential game style of his […]
PARIS, May 30, 2019 Mikael Ymer advanced to the second round at Roland Garros. At his first ever Grand Slam appearance, the 20-year-old Swede fought past fellow qualifier Blaz Rola of Slovenia, winning 6-0, 6-3, 7-6(5) on Tuesday afternoon. Out […]
PARIS, May 29, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) World No. 4 Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands, a smart pick by many to win Roland Garros after lifting the biggest trophy of her career earlier this month at Madrid, instead, saw her […]
PARIS, May 29, 2017 (by Michael Dickens) Whether or not Sloane Stephens and Garbiñe Muguruza had 1 o’clock lunch dates to keep remains uncertain. However, both Top 20 players made quick work of their respective second-round opponents as Day 4 […]
PARIS, May 28, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) The last of the first-round matches at Roland Garros were played on Tuesday, with the few remaining players in the top-half of the singles draw filling up the roster of play. Among the […]
PARIS, May 28, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) Bianca Andreescu of Canada, who has been sidelined since Miami with a right shoulder injury, came back to finish her suspended match with No. 118 lucky loser Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic […]
PARIS, May 27, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) The second session of Monday’s play at Roland Garros extended the theme of favourites winning and upsets occurring. The Frenchmen, too, made merry as the day wore on even as the Americans’ results […]
PARIS, May 27, 2019 The Czech Republic’s Petra Kvitova, seeded 6th, has withdrawn from the Roland-Garros tournament with a left forearm injury. Kvitova, who was scheduled to meet Romania’s Sorana Cirstea in the first round, was replaced by the Slovenian lucky loser Kaja […]
PARIS, May 26, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) Stefanos Tsitsipas, Matteo Berrettini, Marin Cilic and Grigor Dimitrov among others set the ball rolling on the first day of the 2019 French Open. The baton of action was carried onward later in the […]
