Tennis

12:33 PM ET Stefanos Tsitsipas is playing in his first career Grand Slam final. Novak Djokovic is vying for his 19th Slam title. There is plenty on the line for both players, who will face off in Sunday’s French Open men’s singles final. Djokovic is coming off one of the best matches of his storied

11:20 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — Unseeded Barbora Krejcikova won her first Grand Slam singles title by beating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-1, 2-6, 6-4 in the French Open final Saturday. This was only the fifth major tournament in singles for Krejcikova, a 25-year-old from the Czech Republic. She is the third unseeded women’s champion in

11:00 PM ET “Watching Rafa play at Roland Garros to me is like watching your favorite movie,” two-time major champion Victoria Azarenka tweeted as Rafael Nadal was making short work of Cameron Norrie in the French Open’s third round. “You enjoy it a lot but you kinda already know what is going to happen.” This

8:26 PM ET Simon Cambers PARIS — On the sun-scorched clay courts of Roland Garros on Friday, Novak Djokovic did something only he and one other man, Robin Soderling, had ever done before: He beat Rafael Nadal. He also did something no one has ever done before: He wore down the King of Clay. The

12:58 PM ET Associated Press PARIS — Stefanos Tsitsipas went from way ahead to suddenly stuck in a five-set struggle against Alexander Zverev at the French Open on Friday before emerging to earn his first berth in a Grand Slam final. The fifth-seeded Tsitsipas entered with an 0-3 record in major semifinals and it seemed

5:37 AM ET Simon Cambers PARIS — It is a scene synonymous with Roland Garros: an umpire coming down from his chair to check a ball mark, the players and fans waiting for the decision and the crowd whistling or cheering, depending on their allegiance. The French Open is the only one of the four

6:43 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova needed more attempts to reach a Grand Slam final than any other woman in the Open Era. Barbora Krejcikova had to get through the longest women’s semifinal match in the history of the French Open. Now Pavlyuchenkova and Krejcikova, two of the unlikeliest finalists in recent memory, will

11:06 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — Tour veteran Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova endured long stretches where she didn’t enjoy tennis, and because her consistency and confidence were so elusive she considered calling it a career. Her persistence paid off Thursday, when the 29-year-old Russian advanced to her first Grand Slam final by beating unseeded Tamara Zidansek

8:15 PM ET Simon Cambers From a deafening silence to a jubilant chorus and back to silence again. Roland-Garros came alive on Wednesday, with 5,000 fans packed into Court Philippe Chatrier for the night session, a sense of normalcy seemingly returning to the tennis world as France began to relax its COVID-19 restrictions. And then,

2:15 PM ET Simon Cambers PARIS — It is 31 years ago to the day since 16-year-old Monica Seles beat world No. 1 Steffi Graf to win her first Grand Slam. At the time, Seles was the youngest woman to win a title, but back then, teenagers winning slams was nothing new; Graf and Arantxa

12:43 PM ET Associated Press PARIS — Rafael Nadal‘s French Open set streak is over. His pursuit of a record-breaking 21st Grand Slam title — including 14 at Roland Garros — remains very much intact. Nadal shrugged off dropping a set in Paris for the first time in two years and regained control Wednesday, whipping

1:58 PM ET ESPN News Services PARIS — Stefanos Tsitsipas and Alexander Zverev both have been viewed as potential future stars of tennis. Both have come close to Grand Slam titles. Now the pair of 20-somethings will meet each other for a berth in the French Open final after straight-set quarterfinal victories Tuesday. The No.

3:13 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Tamara Zidansek was a three-time junior national snowboarding champion in Slovenia. She only picked up a tennis racket because her snowboarding club offered lessons in the summer. By age 12, she made the decision to focus solely on tennis — simply because she hated the cold weather. Now, she’s two

10:18 AM ET Simon Cambers PARIS — On Day 3 of this year’s French Open, Gael Monfils stood, arms aloft, soaking in the applause from the crowd on Court Suzanne Lenglen. Eight months after Roland Garros was held with only 1,000 fans allowed on-site each day, here was one of France’s favorite sons, lapping up

12:57 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Coco Gauff became an overnight sensation in 2019 after defeating Venus Williams in the first round of Wimbledon. She was a 15-year-old qualifier with little name recognition outside of tennis circles and had just convincingly pulled off the win over her childhood hero and five-time tournament champion. Gauff’s global celebrity

7:17 AM ET ESPN News Services PARIS — A day after Serena Williams was eliminated from the French Open, 17-year-old Coco Gauff showed the future in tennis for American women is bright. Gauff served superbly to reach her first Grand Slam quarterfinal with a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Ons Jabeur on Monday. Gauff lost only

11:21 AM ET ESPN News Services PARIS — Novak Djokovic went from a big deficit to his best tennis at the French Open on Monday, erasing a two-set deficit and grabbing 13 games in a row in a dominant display before his opponent stopped playing because of an injury. The result officially goes into the

5:09 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com The stars seemed to be aligning for Serena Williams. By the time she took the court for her fourth-round match against Elena Rybakina at the French Open on Sunday, Williams was the highest-seeded player and the only top-20 player remaining on her side of the draw. In fact, she was