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10:43 AM ET ESPN News Services Daniil Medvedev keeps getting more comfortable on red clay, and his 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 victory over Laslo Djere on Thursday means the US Open champion has made it to the third round at Roland Garros two years in a row. Medvedev started his French Open career with an 0-4

2:30 PM ET Irina-Camelia Begu has apologized after she was hit with a code violation following an incident where her racket bounced into the stands during her second-round win over Ekaterina Alexandrova. Alexandrova ended up losing the match and has since called for a change in tennis’ rules to prevent this from happening again. The

11:50 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — Make that 30 in a row for Iga Swiatek. The top-ranked Swiatek routed Alison Riske 6-0, 6-2 on Thursday to reach the third round of the French Open and extend the longest winning streak in women’s tennis since Serena Williams won 34 in a row in 2013. The

5:52 PM ET ESPN News Services PARIS — Rafael Nadal reached 300 career Grand Slam match victories by defeating Corentin Moutet 6-3, 6-1, 6-4 in the second round at Roland Garros. The only real blip for 13-time French Open champion Nadal on Wednesday night in Court Philippe Chatrier came near the end, when he was

6:22 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com It had been four-and-a-half hours of battling and sliding on the court. But in the end, Carlos Alcaraz, the Spanish teenager with sky-high expectations, outstretched his arms, first placing them atop his head, and then pointing them towards the crowd. For several seconds, he stood on the court, embracing every

3:08 PM ET ESPN News Service Rising star Carlos Alcaraz saved a match point in the fourth set and erased an early deficit in the fifth to overcome Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-1, 6-7 (7), 5-7, 7-6 (2), 6-4 to reach the third round of the French Open. The sixth-seeded Alcaraz grabbed six of the final seven

4:39 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Barbora Krejcikova, the reigning French Open singles and doubles champion, will not be defending either of her titles during this year’s event. The world’s No. 2 player lost in the first round of singles action on Monday to French teenager Diane Parry, and had to withdraw from doubles on Wednesday

1:19 PM ET The players at the French Open are having to manage the unexpected at Roland Garros. The weather flips in an instant — from blinding sunshine to rain. Air horns from the crowd sound at random moments. And Stan Wawrinka was taken aback by the temperature of his water. Then there are the

7:26 AM ET ESPN News Services Two-time Grand Slam champion Victoria Azarenka of Belarus has reached the third round at the French Open, while US Open champion Emma Raducanu is out in the second round. Azarenka, seeded 15th, had only 13 unforced errors to Andrea Petkovic’s 42 in a 6-1, 7-6 (3) win. Nineteen-year-old Raducanu

9:17 AM ET PARIS, France — Emma Raducanu is looking to the positives from her first clay season after she lost in the second round of the French Open to Aliaksandra Sasnovich in three sets. Raducanu, 19, stormed into an early 6-3 lead in the first set, playing arguably her best tennis since winning the

8:23 AM ET Britain’s two-time Wimbledon champion Andy Murray said on Wednesday the major would never feel like an “exhibition event” and most people only care who wins after the Grand Slam had its ranking points stripped by the ATP and WTA Tours. Organisers the All England Lawn Tennis Club took the decision to ban

7:42 AM ET PARIS — Jo-Wilfried Tsonga bid an emotional farewell to tennis in a special presentation on Court Philippe Chatrier at Roland Garros after losing his first-round match Tuesday at the French Open to Casper Ruud. Tsonga, 37, announced last week he’d bow out after this year’s tournament, bringing an end to a career

4:25 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com When asked about the decision to not award ranking points at Wimbledon this year, four-time major champion Naomi Osaka said the tournament will now be “more like an exhibition.” Other players have responded with anger, confusion and thoughts of skipping Wimbledon altogether. The announcement, made on Friday by the WTA

7:10 AM ET Associated Press Naomi Osaka’s return to the French Open has ended in the first round. The former top-ranked player lost her opening match to Amanda Anisimova 7-5, 6-4 at Roland Garros on Court Suzanne Lenglen. Osaka is a four-time Grand Slam champion who took two mental health breaks last season. That included

10:00 AM ET ESPN News Services PARIS — Barbora Krejcikova arrived at the French Open as the defending champion in singles and doubles. She also was coming off a three-month absence from the tour because of an injured right elbow, so even her own expectations were rather modest. Krejcikova was right to be apprehensive —

7:00 AM ET AFTER 3 HOURS and 35 minutes of tennis on the red clay court in Madrid, Carlos Alcaraz aims his serve out wide. Novak Djokovic, who has spent more time ranked No. 1 than anybody, lunges, grunting as he reaches awkwardly with his backhand to return the 19-year-old’s serve. Alcaraz is up 6-5

3:54 PM ET ESPN News Services Rising star Carlos Alcaraz showed what the fuss is all about with a quick and clean first-round victory in the main stadium at Roland Garros on Sunday. The 19-year-old from Spain never faced a break point while beating Juan Ignacio Londero 6-4, 6-2, 6-0 in less than two hours

3:21 PM ET ESPN News Services American teenager Coco Gauff did not let 10 double-faults, 12 break points or a warning from the chair umpire about receiving coaching from her father disrupt her progress into the second round at Roland Garros. The 18-year-old Gauff began her trip to Paris with a 7-5, 6-0 victory over

11:19 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Former US Open champion Sloane Stephens said on Sunday she supports the WTA and ATP’s decision to not award ranking points at Wimbledon and stated she had previously hoped “everyone had a fair opportunity to play.” The All England Club announced in April it would not allow players from Russia

8:24 AM ET Kelly CohenESPN Rafael Nadal’s career has been spectacular and his career on clay has been unlike any other in the history of the sport. And Nadal loves Roland Garros. Period. But only recently he returned from a rib injury while also dealing with chronic pain in his left foot that kept him