Maand: mei 2022

6:41 PM ET ESPN News Services PARIS — Alexander Zverev put an end to 19-year-old rising star Carlos Alcaraz’s 14-match winning streak by holding him off to win 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (7) on Tuesday night, reaching the semifinals at Roland Garros for the second year in a row. A lot of folks were predicting

2:03 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Coco Gauff had five set points in the opening set of her 2021 French Open quarterfinal match against Barbora Krejcikova. She failed to convert any of them. Ultimately, she lost the match — ending her career-best appearance at a major. She couldn’t hide her disappointment. But despite being just 17

1:00 PM ET Zenia D’Cunha Karman Kaur Thandi was poised to be the next big thing in Indian women’s tennis. In August 2018, she reached a career-best singles rank of 196 when she was just 20, only the sixth Indian woman to have cracked the top 200 of the WTA. But a cruel combination of

11:18 AM ET ESPN News Services PARIS — Cori “Coco” Gauff has reached the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time with a 7-5, 6-2 victory over former US Open champion Sloane Stephens in the French Open quarterfinals. Gauff built early leads in both sets, and Stephens made errors at key points

9:00 AM ET Simon Cambers PARIS — When Roland-Garros organizers added night sessions to the schedule for the first time last year, they had matches such as Tuesday’s slate in mind, as Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal go head-to-head for a place in the semifinals. It’s a repeat of last year’s semifinal, which had an

3:06 AM ET Andy Murray said on Monday the decision to strip Wimbledon of its ranking points was not a “great move” by the ATP and WTA Tours. Wimbledon had its ranking points taken away by the men’s ATP and women’s WTA after the grasscourt major opted to exclude players from Russia and Belarus because

11:30 AM ET ESPN News Services PARIS — Marin Cilic, the 2014 U.S. Open champion, continued an impressive run Monday at the French Open, defeating Daniil Medvedev 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 in the last match of the day. Medvedev is the 2021 U.S. Open champion and the No. 2 seed here, but he struggled Monday, and

4:29 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Women’s professional tennis will return to the San Diego area this fall for the first time in seven years. The $823,000 San Diego Open will be played Oct. 8-16 at Barnes Tennis Center. The WTA 500 hard-court event will have a 32-player singles draw and 16 doubles

2:27 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Limited experience? Veteran opponents? The unlikeliest of odds? None of these were a problem for a group of teenagers who didn’t flinch with French Open quarterfinal bids on the line. On Monday, Holger Rune pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the tournaments thus far with a 7-5, 3-6,

11:24 AM ET Simon Cambers PARIS — Here we go. Again. The 59th installment of the Novak Djokovic–Rafael Nadal rivalry takes place at the French Open under the lights Tuesday night — a quarterfinal match so hotly anticipated that organizers have ensured it will be played free to air, removing the usual paywall. No two

8:28 AM ET ESPN News Services Madison Keys totally lost control after a brilliant opening set as she crashed out of the French Open with a 1-6, 6-3, 6-1 loss to Russian Veronika Kudermetova in Paris on Monday. The 22nd seed, who was looking to be the third American into the quarterfinals, was powerless against

6:30 AM ET Associated Press The International Tennis Federation has awarded Stan Smith its highest honor, the Philippe Chatrier Award. Smith won the singles titles at the US Open in 1971 and Wimbledon the following year, and also won five Grand Slam doubles titles and was part of seven Davis Cup winning teams for the

4:45 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com With French Open quarterfinal bids on the line, none of the teenagers flinched. On Sunday, Coco Gauff, Leylah Fernandez and Carlos Alcaraz each won their matches to get one step closer to their first Grand Slam title. For Fernandez and Alcaraz, both 19, it’s the first time either has made

5:52 PM ET PARIS — Rafael Nadal is used to overcoming adversity. His entire year has been anchored around it — whether it’s his chronic foot injury, a rib fracture or his own Uncle Toni attempting to mastermind his downfall. But Nadal has remained in control of his 2022 script, despite his five-set win over

10:07 AM ET Associated Press Defending champion Novak Djokovic has reached his record 16th career Roland Garros quarterfinal and could find a familiar foe across the net next: Rafael Nadal. The No. 1-ranked Djokovic quickly recovered from only the slightest of blips at the start of the second set Sunday and went on to a

10:21 AM ET ESPN News Service American teenager Coco Gauff hit one backhand around the net post in the first set along the way to earning a berth in the French Open quarterfinals for the second consecutive year. The 18-year-old American took over from 4-all in the opening set en route to beating No. 31

3:55 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Jessica Pegula roared towards the crowd after her victory at the French Open on Saturday. The 28-year-old just defeated Tamara Zidansek, a 2021 semifinalist at the tournament, 6-1, 7-6 (2) and advanced to the fourth round at Roland Garros for the first time in her career. “[I’m] definitely very happy

8:19 AM ET ESPN News Services Top-ranked Iga Swiatek won her 31st consecutive match and advanced into the fourth round at Roland Garros for the fourth time in four appearances with a sometimes shaky 6-3, 7-5 victory over Danka Kovinic on Saturday. Swiatek, the 2020 French Open champion, has collected 48 of the past 49

10:39 AM ET Iga Swiatek came into the French Open as the favorite — and so far, she has looked dominant. While Saturday’s match over Montenegro’s Danka Kovinic did not go perfectly, Swiatek still easily advanced to the fourth round with a 6-3, 7-5 victory to win her 31st match in a row. And while

9:43 AM ET ESPN News Services Second-seeded Daniil Medvedev cruised past Miomir Kecmanovic of Serbia with a comfortable 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 victory in less than two hours Saturday to advance to the fourth round of the French Open. The US Open champion, who reached the quarterfinals at Roland Garros last year after four consecutive first-round