8:22 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — Tennis legend and LGBTQ rights activist Billie Jean King received France’s highest civilian honor, the Legion of Honor, on Friday. King, who is in France as the French Open concludes, received the award in recognition of her contributions to women’s sports, gender equality and the rights of LGBTQ
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10:28 AM ET ESPN News Services Iga Swiatek continued her march toward a second French Open title in three years when she demolished Russian Daria Kasatkina 6-2, 6-1 to reach the final and tie Serena Williams for the second-longest winning streak of this century. Swiatek’s 34th win in a row puts her one victory away
12:22 PM ET ESPN News Services PARIS — Coco Gauff sat plain-faced in her French Open changeover chair after moving one set away from her first Grand Slam final at 18 — just 18! — and calmly snacked on some cut-up pieces of pineapple and other fruit, seemingly without a care in the world. Her
11:05 AM ET India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Dutch partner Matwe Middelkoop saved two match points but their dream run at the French Open ended with a semifinal defeat to Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Rojer on Thursday. Bopanna and Middelkoop, seeded 16th, lost 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (8-10) to the 12th seeded pair from El Salvador
10:04 AM ET French Open tournament director Amelie Mauresmo has apologized for comments made on Wednesday where she said men’s matches had more “appeal” than women’s. Mauresmo was fielding questions about why there were nine men’s matches in the prime evening slot in Paris, compared to just one women’s match. “In this era that we
8:03 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — The second-seeded pair of Ena Shibahara and Wesley Koolhof won the mixed doubles title at the French Open on Thursday by defeating Ulrikke Eikeri and Joran Vliegen 7-6 (5), 6-2. Shibahara and Koolhof trailed 5-2 in the first-set tiebreaker before winning the next five points. They dominated the
7:31 PM ET ESPN News Services Casper Ruud has become the first man from Norway to reach the semifinals at a Grand Slam tournament, getting that far at the French Open by beating 19-year-old Holger Rune of Denmark 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-3. The eighth-seeded Ruud’s 3-hour, 15-minute victory at Court Philippe Chatrier began Wednesday
10:55 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek won her 33rd match in a row with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over 11th-seeded Jessica Pegula to advance to the semifinals of the French Open. The 21-year-old Swiatek will next face Daria Kasatkina of Russia for a spot in the final. Swiatek gained from what
7:04 AM ET Associated Press New French Open tournament director Amelie Mauresmo says nine of the 10 night session matches at Roland Garros this year involved men because women’s tennis currently has less appeal. Mauresmo said at a news conference Wednesday that she tried on a daily basis to find a women’s pairing that had
2:50 AM ET Sania Mirza and her Czech partner Lucie Hradecka’s valiant effort went in vain as American duo Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula prevailed in the women’s doubles third round of the French Open in Paris on Tuesday. Despite a combined age of 72 years, Mirza and Hradecka produced some high quality tennis but
7:29 PM ET ESPN News Services PARIS — Rafael Nadal insists he can’t know for sure whether any match at Roland Garros might be his very last at a place he loves, a place he is loved. For now, if he keeps winning and keeps performing the way he did during his monumental quarterfinal victory
8:16 PM ET PARIS — Eventually Rafael Nadal will retire, just like he’s told us he will. But it won’t be today — or even yesterday — when this punch-for-punch quarterfinal started against Novak Djokovic. The two old, grizzled heavyweights of the sport have traded blows since they first met on this patch of clay
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