Articles filed under Tennis
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French Open 2025: Coco Gauff’s serve is not at its best, but she gets the breaks for a winMay 29, 2025 5:15 pm - Coco Gauff has managed to move into the French Open's third round despite some shaky serving. The 2023 U.S. Open champion kept getting herself in some trouble by getting broken on Thursday but kept putting herself back in position to win by breaking right back.
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French Open 2025: Casper Ruud is bothered by a painful knee and loses to Nuno BorgesMay 28, 2025 5:04 pm - Two-time French Open finalist Casper Ruud has dropped 13 of the last 14 games and lost 2-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-0 to Nuno Borges in the second round at Roland-Garros while bothered by a bad left knee. The seventh-seeded Ruud revealed after Wednesday's match that he had been playing in pain off-and-on throughout the clay-court season. He reached at least the semifinals each of the past three years in Paris.
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French Open 2025: Novak Djokovic is bothered by the weather more than anything in 1st-round winMay 27, 2025 6:32 pm - PARIS — Novak Djokovic experienced the lowest of lows — pulling out of the French Open after tearing the meniscus in his right knee — and the highest of highs — winning a...
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Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek are off to good starts at the French Open in their title defensesMay 26, 2025 5:08 pm - PARIS — Iga Swiatek, who has struggled lately, and Carlos Alcaraz, who has not, got off to good starts in their French Open title defenses Monday, recording straight-set ...
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Musetti and Sabalenka ease into second round at French Open, tournament honors NadalMay 25, 2025 4:38 pm - PARIS — Lorenzo Musetti and Aryna Sabalenka eased into the second round of the French Open without dropping a set on Sunday's opening day. The eighth-seeded Musetti won 7...
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French Open 2025: The certainty Rafael Nadal and Iga Swiatek brought to Paris is missing nowMay 22, 2025 8:09 pm - There will be an unfamiliar uncertainty at the French Open when the year's second Grand Slam tournament begins in Paris on Sunday. That is because the air of inevitability that used to surround Rafael Nadal's participation is gone now that the 14-time champion at Roland-Garros has retired.
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Alcaraz beats Sinner again to win the Italian Open and solidify his status as French Open favoriteMay 18, 2025 3:13 pm - ROME — There’s only one player who is consistently beating Jannik Sinner. Carlos Alcaraz defeated the top-ranked Sinner again, 7-6 (5), 6-1, to win his first Italian Open...
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With his brother’s help, Hersey graduate Max Sheldon sets Michigan State recordMay 11, 2025 1:25 pm - Michigan State senior Max Sheldon, a graduate of Hersey High School, set the Spartans’ all-time record for combined victories -- with help from his younger brother, Mitchell.
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Wimbledon runner-up Nick Kyrgios beats McDonald at the Miami Open for his first win in 2 1/2 yearsMar 19, 2025 9:42 pm - Nick Kyrgios has won a match for the first time in nearly 2 1/2 years. The 2022 Wimbledon runner-up beat Mackie McDonald 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 at the Miami Open on Wednesday. Kyrgios was wearing a thick wrap of beige tape on his surgically repaired right wrist that he said was numb after he took five painkillers.
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Teenager Mirra Andreeva beats No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka to win the Indian Wells titleMar 16, 2025 6:40 pm - INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva came back to beat No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the BNP Paribas Open on Sunday to make the 17-year-...