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French Open doubles match ends after sign causes injury
A French Open women's doubles match ended Friday when a player tripped over an advertising sign near the baseline and crashed into a wall.,Turkey's Zeynep Sonmez, 24, sustained a leg injury on the incident at Court Six at Roland Garros in Paris.,Sonmez was chasing down a lob in the first set when sh...
Aryna Sabalenka, Coco Gauff charge into French Open 3rd round
A pair of top seeds advanced to the third round of the French Open with No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus and No. 4 Coco Gauff earning straight-set victories Thursday at Paris.,No. 6 Amanda Anisimova also advanced along with No. 16 Naomi Osaka of Japan, No. 17 Iva Jovic, No. 19 Madison Keys, No. 22 A...
Report: Serena Williams wants to make comeback at Queen's Club
Serena Williams reportedly is planning a return to professional tennis.,The Telegraph reported Thursday that Williams, 44, plans to request a wild card to play doubles with Victoria Mboko, 19, of Canada in the Queen's Club Championships next month in London. The tournament, which begins on June 8, s...
Yuliia Starodubtseva jolts No. 2 Elena Rybakina at French Open
Yuliia Starodubtseva recorded the biggest win of her career by posting a 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (4) victory over second-seeded Elena Rybakina on Wednesday in the second round of the French Open in Paris.,Starodubtseva, a 26-year-old from the Ukraine who attended Old Dominion, bounced back from dropping the o...
Kimberly Birrell shockingly beats No. 5 Jessica Pegula in French Open
Kimberly Birrell's first-ever French Open victory rates as the upset of the day as the Australian took down No. 5 seed Jessica Pegula 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 on Tuesday in first-round action at the French Open in Paris.,Birrell lost eight of the first 10 games in the match before impressively storming back to...
Coco Gauff wins after 'mini car accident' at French Open
Defending champion Coco Gauff won her first-round match at the French Open hours after a "mini car accident" on the way to Roland Garros on Tuesday.,The fourth-seeded Gauff discussed the incident with TNT Sports following her 6-4, 6-0 victory against fellow American Taylor Townsend in Paris.,Gauff, ...
Amanda Anisimova returns to action, wins first-round match in Paris
Amanda Anisimova needed some time to shake off the rust on Monday during her first-round match at the French Open.,It was nine weeks to the day that Anisimova last played a competitive match. But once the No. 6 seed found her form, she rolled to a 6-3, 6-1 victory over France's Tiantsoa Rakotomanga ...
Amanda Anisimova returns to action, win first-round match in Paris
Amanda Anisimova needed some time to shake off the rust on Monday during her first-round match at the French Open.,It was nine weeks to the day that Anisimova last played a competitive match. But once the No. 6 seed found her form, she rolled to a 6-3, 6-1 victory over France's Tiantsoa Rakotomanga ...
Hailey Baptiste powers past Barbora Krejcikova at French Open
American Hailey Baptiste overcame former French Open winner Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic in first-round play at Roland Garros on Sunday in Paris.,Baptiste, seeded 26th, saved two match points and outlasted Krejcikova 6-7 (7), 7-6 (6), 6-2 in two hours, 57 minutes.,Krejcikova, the 2021 Fr...
WTA roundup: Emma Navarro jolts Victoria Mboko in Strasbourg final
Emma Navarro won her first title on clay Saturday by posting a 6-0, 5-7, 6-2 victory over top-seeded Victoria Mboko of Canada at the Internationaux de Strasbourg in France.,Navarro overcame four aces by Mboko and benefited from six double faults by her foe to secure her third career title and first ...
WTA roundup: Emma Navarro eases into Strasbourg final
Emma Navarro crushed fellow American Ann Li 6-1, 6-3 on Friday to advance to the Internationaux de Strasbourg final against top-seeded Victoria Mboko in France.,Navarro saved seven of eight break points and converted five of eight break chances, finishing the WTA 500 clay-court semifinal in 77 minut...
WTA roundup: Victoria Mboko beats Leylah Fernandez in all-Canadian affair
Top-seeded Victoria Mboko converted 24 of 29 first-serve points (82.8%) to record a 6-4, 6-4 victory over No. 7 seed Leylah Fernandez in an all-Canadian affair to reach the semifinals of the Internationaux de Strasbourg on Thursday in France.,Both players had serving issues as Mboko had five double ...
French Open not budging on prize pool demands
Ahead of the French Open, which begins Sunday in Paris, players have accused tournament organizers of reducing their share of revenue, but director Amelie Mauresmo said the prize money will not change this year.,Players receive 22% of the revenue at standard ATP and WTA events, but they feel they ar...
Coco Gauff opens French Open defense vs. fellow American
Defending French Open champion and No. 4 seed Coco Gauff will face fellow American Taylor Townsend in the first round at Roland Garros.,The draw was announced on Thursday for the French Open, the clay-court major that begins on Sunday in Paris and runs through June 7.,Gauff, 22, is seeking her third...
WTA roundup: Camila Osorio knocks off No. 1 seed Janice Tjen in Rabat
Yasmine Kabbaj continued her run through her home tournament with a 6-2, 6-4 upset of third-seeded German Tatjana Maria in the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem Round of 16 on Wednesday at Rabat, Morocco.,Kabbaj is just the second Moroccan to make a WTA quarterfinal in the Open Era, convertin...
WTA roundup: Ann Li delivers upset in Strasbourg
Ann Li rallied for a 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 upset of No. 2 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia in second-round action Tuesday at the Internationaux de Strasbourg in France.,Li finished the victory in just under two hours after tallying 10 aces, converting five of 14 break chances and taking advantage of eig...
Sorana Cirstea (age 36) becomes oldest woman to debut in Top 20
Romania's Sorana Cirstea became the oldest player to make her Top 20 rankings debut in WTA history when she was No. 18 in the update released Monday.,Cirstea, 36, previously reached No. 21 in both 2013 and 2014 but was unable to crack the Top 20. More recently, she reached No. 22 in 2024, No. 25 in ...
WTA roundup: Daria Kasatkina beats Liudmila Samsonova at Strasbourg
Daria Kasatkina of Australia served four aces and saved 9 of 12 break points while recording a 7-5, 6-3 victory over sixth-seeded Liudmila Samsonova in the first round of the Internationaux de Strasbourg in France.,Kasatkina also converted 5 of 7 break points and will play American Peyton Stearns on...
Leylah Fernandez gets off to hot start in Strasbourg
Canadian Leylah Fernandez handled France's Leolia Jeanjean 6-1, 7-5 in the headlining match Sunday at the Strasbourg Open in Strasbourg, France.,The No. 23 player in the world, Fernandez was the highlight on Day 1 of the traditional French Open lead-in tournament, saving eight of nine break points o...
Elina Svitolina defeats Coco Gauff in 3 sets for Italian Open title
Elina Svitolina recovered from a second-set tie-breaker loss and went on to defeat Coco Gauff, 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-2 on Saturday to win her third Italian Open championship in Rome.,The 31-year-old Ukrainian became the second woman age 30-plus to take the WTA 1000 title in the Italian capital. Serena Wil...