Six-time champion from Spain, Rafael Nadal is up against world number one Novak Djokovic of Serbia.
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06:20 PM, Jun 10, 2012
Its six-time champion Rafael Nadal against David Ferrer, while in the second match its world number one Novak Djokovic against Roger Federer. ...
04:31 PM, Jun 08, 2012
Paris: One victory on Thursday finished Maria Sharapova's climb back to the top of the tennis rankings. With one more on Saturday, she'll be the French Open champion and complete a career Grand Slam. Sharapova defeated Petra Kvitova 6-3, 6-3 in the windblown semi-finals at Roland Garros. She needs a victory over 21st-seeded Sara Errani, a 7-5, 1-6, 6-3 winner over sixth-seeded Samantha Stosur, to become the 10th woman to...
10:52 PM, Jun 07, 2012
Paris: Sara Errani of Italy beat sixth-seeded Sam Stosur of Australia 7-5, 1-6, 6-3 at the French Open on Thursday to reach her first Grand Slam singles final. The 21st-seeded Errani won for the second time in a row against a top-10 opponent after starting her career 0-28 in such matches. She beat No. 10 Angelique Kerber in the quarterfinals. Errani never made it past the third round at any...
09:20 PM, Jun 07, 2012
Paris: Rafael Nadal moved closer to a record seventh French Open title and improved to 50-1 for his career at the tournament by beating 12th-seeded Nicolas Almagro 7-6 (4), 6-2, 6-3 in the quarterfinals Wednesday. Nadal has won all 15 sets he's played this year at Roland Garros. Only Nadal and Bjorn Borg have won six French Open championships. The 26-year-old Spaniard is also seeking his 11th Grand Slam trophy,...
10:25 PM, Jun 06, 2012
Paris: Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova reached the semifinals for the third time in the past four Grand Slam tournaments, ending 142nd-ranked qualifier Yaroslava Shvedova's upset-filled run at the French Open 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 Wednesday. Shvedova was trying to become the first qualifier in Roland Garros history to reach the semifinals " and only the third to get that far at any major tournament, joining Alexandra Stevenson at Wimbledon in 1999,...
07:59 PM, Jun 06, 2012
Paris: Four times, the stands at Roland Garros were ready to erupt, a beloved Frenchman standing one point from beating the world's top player and ending his quest for history. Four times, Novak Djokovic had an answer for Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. And so, instead of Tsonga Time at the French Open, Djokovic is still on the road to the "Novak Slam." Top-seeded Djokovic overcame four match points, to say nothing of...
11:52 PM, Jun 05, 2012
Paris: Americans Bob and Mike Bryan remember their 2003 French Open doubles title as if it was yesterday. They stayed on course to win a record 12th Grand Slam championship together by defeating Oliver Marach of Austria and Horacio Zeballos of Argentina 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 to advance to the semifinals at Roland Garros on Tuesday. "Crazy, it goes by so quick," Mike Bryan said, recalling their only French Open title....
11:39 PM, Jun 05, 2012
Paris: India's Leander Paes and Elena Vesnina of Russia fought their way to the mixed doubles semi-finals of the French Open with a thrilling 4-6 7-5 10-5 victory over Max Mirnyi of Belarus and American Liezel Huber here Tuesday. The fifth seeds took a little over one and a half hours to prevail over the Belarusian-American combine here. Paes and Vesnina will next take on Poland's Klaudia Jans-Ignacik and Santiago...
10:38 PM, Jun 05, 2012
Paris: Sara Errani of Italy reached her first Grand Slam semi-final with her first career victory against a top-10 player, eliminating 10th-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany 6-3, 7-6 (2) at the French Open on Tuesday. The 21st-seeded Errani entered the day having lost all 28 previous matches against players ranked in the WTA's top 10. She got off to a good start by breaking 2011 U.S. Open semifinalist Kerber in...
07:56 PM, Jun 05, 2012
Paris: US Open champion Samantha Stosur reached the semi-finals at the French Open for the third time in four years, beating 15th-seeded Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia 6-4, 6-1 on Tuesday. The sixth-seeded Stosur has won all 10 sets she's played this year at Roland Garros, where she was the runner-up in 2010 and got to the semi-finals in 2009. Serving while trailing 1-0 in the second set, Stosur faced three...
07:27 PM, Jun 05, 2012
Paris: Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova reached the French Open quarterfinals for the first time by beating unseeded American Varvara Lepchenko 6-2, 6-1 Monday. The fourth-seeded Kvitova entered the day having lost fourth-round matches at Roland Garros in 2008 and last year. But she needed only an hour to wrap things up against the 63rd-ranked Lepchenko, the last U.S. singles player left in the men's or women's French Open draw. Lepchenko,...
12:22 AM, Jun 05, 2012
Paris: Andy Murray overcame a slow start and a stiff back Monday to defeat Richard Gasquet 1-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 and advance to the French Open quarterfinals. Murray, who complained his back was hurting him in the early rounds last week, was clutching his back during the first set in cold, windy conditions at Roland Garros. But as the match went on against the 17th-seeded Gasquet, fourth-seeded Murray showed no...
12:15 AM, Jun 05, 2012
Paris: Rafael Nadal defeated Juan Monaco 6-2, 6-0, 6-0 on Monday to advance to the quarter-finals of the French Open and keep his quest for a record seventh title at Roland Garros on track. It was a stress-free match that took 14 minutes short of two hours. Nadal faced only two break points and saved them both, as neither the windy weather nor his 13th-seeded opponent caused him the slightest...
11:13 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Paris: Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi inched towards their second Grand Slam title together as they progressed to the mixed doubles semi-finals of the French Open after shocking second seeds Kveta Peschke and Mike Bryan, here on Monday. The seventh-seeded Indian pair breezed past the Czech-American pair 6-2 6-3 in just under an hour in the quarter-finals of the clay court Major. The Indians saved all the four breakpoints they...
09:23 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Paris: Li Na's French Open title defense ended Monday with a 3-6, 6-2, 6-0 fourth-round loss to 142nd-ranked qualifier Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan on a blustery day at Roland Garros. Shvedova, a doubles specialist who teamed with Vania King to win Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in 2010, made the French Open singles draw as a qualifier and became only the ninth qualifier to make it to the quarter-finals at...
08:44 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Paris: Even though he was again far from his best, Roger Federer still managed to win at the French Open. The 2009 champion at Roland Garros was pushed to four sets Friday for the second straight match, this time beating Nicolas Mahut of France 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 in the third round. Federer, who is trying to become the first man over 30 years old to win a major title...
12:04 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Paris: Local favourite Jo-Wilfried Tsonga marched into the fourth round of the French Open with a solid 7-5 6-4 6-4 win over flamboyant Fabio Fognini of Italy on Friday. Fognini did his best to unsettle Tsonga with his histrionics and whipping shots, but the fifth-seeded Frenchman managed to stay focused even though he dropped his serve five times. Despite the humid conditions on Court Philippe Chatrier, Tsonga, the last Frenchman...
09:15 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Former India player Vijay Amritraj tips six-time champion Rafael Nadal as red-hot favourite to win the French Open. ...
11:32 AM, May 30, 2012
