Four-time champion Iga Swiatek eliminated 136th-ranked French Open debutante Emerson Jones 6-1, 6-2 in the first round on Monday. With the temperature due to rise to 32 degrees Celsius, Swiatek did well to make short work of her 17-year-old Australian opponent, beating her in exactly an hour.
Novak Djokovic came back from a set down for a 5-7, 7-5, 6-1, 6-4 victory over 22-year-old home player Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard in the first round at Roland Garros.
Gabriel Diallo’s time at Roland-Garros didn’t last long as the Canadian was forced to retire with an injury in his opening match on Sunday. The 24-year-old native of Montreal was playing Australia’s James Duckworth in first-round action, but departed in the second set after entering the Grand Slam tournament with back problems.
Alexander Zverev’s pursuit of his first major title is off to a roaring start. The second seed eased past home favourite Benjamin Bonzi 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 in two hours and eight minutes on Sunday to reach the second round at Roland Garros.
Canada's Victoria Mboko fell just short of her first career clay-court title, losing to American Emma Navarro 6-0, 5-7, 6-2 in the Strasbourg International final. Navarro ends Mboko's nine-match win streak of three-set matches as the Canadian teenager entered 9-1 in 2026 in matches that go to a deciding set.
Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko beat Romania's Jaqueline Cristian 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-2 to reach the Strasbourg International final and move one win away from her third career WTA Tour title. The top-seeded Mboko will face world No. 39 Emma Navarro of the United States in Saturday's final.
Top seed Victoria Mboko cruised to a 6-4, 6-4 win over fellow Canadian Leylah Fernandez in quarterfinal action Thursday at the Strasbourg International tennis tournament. Mboko improved to 2-0 against Fernandez and will face Romania’s Jaqueline Cristian in Friday’s semifinals.
In a beautiful display of class during Roland Garros qualifying, Canadian Bianca Andreescu’s opponent, Daphnee Mpetshi Perricard, is in tears on the bench after losing their match, so Andreescu comforts her and asks the crowd to give her some applause.
Two-time Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz said he is pulling out of the grass-court Grand Slam event next month because of his lingering wrist injury. Alcaraz injured his right wrist at the Barcelona Open last month and had already withdrawn from the the French Open that starts this weekend. He won the clay-court tournament the last two years.
Italian tennis fans had waited for this moment for a half century. For Jannik Sinner, though, it wasn’t just about becoming the first Italian man to win the Italian Open since Adriano Panatta 50 years ago. The top-ranked Sinner’s 6-4, 6-4 victory over Casper Ruud in Sunday's final on the red clay of the Foro Italico also made him only the second man after Novak Djokovic to win all nine Masters 1000 events — the biggest tournaments outside the Grand Slams.
Coco Gauff explains why she can see tennis players uniting on a potential boycott of Grand Slams following disappointment with the French Open prize pool.
Felix Auger-Aliassime won his opening match Saturday at the Madrid Open tennis tournament defeating Vilius Gaubas 6-3, 6-4. Auger-Aliassime, the third seed, will face Belgian Alexander Blockx on Monday.
Denis Shapovalov dropped a 6-2, 6-1 decision to Norway’s Nicolai Budkov Kjaer after the Norwegian finished with four service breaks in six opportunities in the contest to beat Shapovalolv.
Arthur Ashe was the first Black male to win the singles titles at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the Australian Open. His commitment to social justice, health and humanitarian issues left his mark on and off the court.
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