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: Roger Federer came back from a two-set deficit for the seventh time in his career and beat Juan Martin del Potro 3-6, 6-7 (4), 6-2, 6-0, 6-3 at the French Open on Tuesday to reach his record-tying 31st Grand Slam semi-final. Federer already owns 16 major titles, including at Roland Garros in 2009, but has gone more than two years without adding to that record total. Del Potro, whose...
11:10 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: She gingerly flexed her right wrist, pulled on her ponytail in frustration, argued with the umpire and left the court with remnants of a big, orange blob of clay pasted to the back of her soaking shirt. Yes, Maria Sharapova had to get down in the dirt for her latest French Open win, but her quest to complete the career Grand Slam is still alive. After breezing through her...
09:49 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: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga followed up a long night of worrying with a short day of tennis. In the end, everything turned out OK for France's favorite player. The No. 5 seed returned to Roland Garros on Monday and finished off a five-set victory over No. 18 Stanislas Wawrinka, quickly dropping a service break but rebounding to win the last two games of a match that was suspended by darkness the...
07:58 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Paris: Juan Martin del Potro set up a French Open quarterfinal against Roger Federer by finishing off a 7-6 (6), 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 victory over Tomas Berdych on Monday in a match stopped the night before because of darkness after three sets. The No. 9-seeded del Potro broke No. 7 Berdych at love in the final game. Del Potro is 2-11 against Federer, but one of the victories came in...
06:44 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Paris: Fifth-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France closed out a five-set victory over Stanislas Wawrinka on Monday at the French Open, winning the last two games of a match that was suspended by darkness the night before. Tsonga, trying to become the first Frenchman to win any Grand Slam title since Yannick Noah's championship at Roland Garros in 1983, defeated Wawrinka 6-4, 7-6 (6), 3-6, 3-6, 6-4. Tsonga led 4-2 in...
06:08 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Paris: No. 12-seeded Nicolas Almagro of Spain beat eighth-seeded Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 on a wet and windy Monday to reach the French Open quarter-finals for the third time " and might have been excused for hoping he doesn't have to play Rafael Nadal yet again. Almagro's previous two trips to the round of eight at Roland Garros, in 2008 and 2010, both ended with losses to...
05:30 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Paris: Sixth-seeded David Ferrer reached the French Open quarter-finals for the third time, beating No. 20 Marcel Granollers 6-3, 6-2, 6-0 on a rainy, windy Monday in the first all-Spanish matchup of this year's tournament. There's been at least one Spain vs Spain encounter at Roland Garros every year since 1994. Ferrer improved to 4-0 against Davis Cup teammate Granollers, who was making his fourth-round Grand Slam debut. Ferrer erased...
05:25 PM, Jun 04, 2012
