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 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) 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. […]
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 5, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) Defending French Open champion Simona Halep is three wins from successfully defending her title. However, if she is to win her second Grand Slam crown, she will have to do it over three […]
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