12:23 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com For 68 minutes, Iga Swiatek captivated the tennis world. On Saturday, her blistering, athletic play dismantled teenage phenom Coco Gauff, 6-1, 6-3, to win the 2022 French Open. Swiatek took the first four games of the match — and never looked back. It marked Swiatek’s second major title and her
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6:17 PM ET Associated Press WIMBLEDON, England — Serena and Venus Williams did not appear on the women’s singles entry list released by Wimbledon on Friday. It is possible that either player could request a wild-card invitation to the Grand Slam tournament, which begins on June 27. Serena Williams has won seven of her Open
1:34 PM ET Simon Cambers PARIS — After two weeks of play, tennis got “the best women’s final” possible at Roland-Garros, where on Saturday, world No. 1 Iga Swiatek and 18-year-old American Coco Gauff will meet for the title. Swiatek, the French Open 2020 champion, is looking for consecutive win No 35, which would equal
12:31 PM ET ESPN News Service Rafael Nadal has advanced to the French Open final after Alexander Zverev fell during a point, injured his right ankle and stopped playing. A little more than 3 hours into the match, Zverev was running to his right to chase a ball when he tumbled. His black outfit was
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
10:21 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