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PARIS — This felt like a sport Coco Gauff merely wanted to assert if she supposed to lastly win a set, not to mention a match, in opposition to No. 1 Iga Swiatek. ...

Jack Draper will miss Wimbledon due to a shoulder damage that compelled him out of the French Open. The 21-year-old British participant stated Thurs...

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Thursday June 8, 2023Heartbreak is a part of tennis, and Aryna Sabalenka has discovered that lesson many instances over the course of her profession.On Thursday in Paris, after squandering a match level and a 5-2 lead within the last set to Karolina Muchova, she felt it once more, however the 25-year-old vowed to not let it maintain her down.“I mean, of course you're always facing some challenges, and I definitely have to learn something from this match and come back stronger,” Sabalenka instructed reporters.After profitable her maiden main in 2023, and claiming three titles as she compiled a 34-6 document, Sabalenka made some extent of patting herself on the again for a job properly executed this season regardless of Thursday's gutwrenching loss.She add...

As it's, Karolina Muchova was the unseeded, sudden participant within the French Open semifinals. And then, coping with cramping legs almost three h...

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Thursday June 8, 2023No.1 is on the road this weekend in Paris.Novak Djokovic has an opportunity to overhaul Carlos Alcaraz on the prime of the ATP rankings on the Monday after Roland-Garros, however he should take the title to do it.Any different outcome will go away Alcaraz at No.1.Per the ATP, If Alcaraz wins Roland Garros, he'll go away Paris with a 2,140-point lead over Djokovic. If Djokovic claims his third Coupe des Mousquetaires, he'll lead the Spaniard by 420 factors. That is a possible 2,560-point swing.Djokovic and Alcaraz will play their second profession assembly on Friday in Paris. Alcaraz took their first assembly at Madrid in 2022, within the semifinals, 6-7(5), 7-5, 7-6(5).“If You Want to Beat the Best…" Djokovic and Alcaraz each feel si...

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Thursday June 8, 2023It would have been simple to lean on the fatigue excuse. But Holger Rune wasn’t having any of it after falling in 4 units to Casper Ruud in 4 units in Wednesday’s last males’s singles quarterfinal at Roland-Garros.“I was fine physically. No excuse,” he stated. “I just didn't play my level. It's tough, but sometimes it's like this, and you have to learn from it, come back stronger.”It was a very painful begin for the 20-year-old Dane, who received simply three video games within the first two units and didn't appear to be himself in any respect.“I think I started very, very bad, unfortunately. I didn't find my level at all the first two sets,” Rune stated. “Then I started to play a little bit better. Found some rhythm in my game. Mana...

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Wednesday June 7, 2023Coco Gauff’s 6-4, 6-2 loss to Iga Swiatek on Wednesday in Paris units a brand new report for American tennis. The American women and men have gone 12 consecutive majors with out bringing house a Grand Slam singles titles, which marks the longest streak in historical past.The stat displays the whole embarrassment of riches that US tennis has loved since, mainly, ceaselessly.According to NBC Sports, the earlier longest drought report of 11 Grand Slams in a row and not using a males’s or girls’s singles title began after Chuck McKinley’s win at 1963 and ended at Wimbledon in 1966 with the primary of Billie Jean King‘s 12 major singles titles.The 12-major drought for U.S. women alone is the longest since Monica Seles won the 1996 Austra...

By Erik Gudris | @atntennis | Wednesday, June 7, 2023 The world’s high ATP and WTA gamers will compete on the new Mubadala Citi DC Open in Washington D.C. from July 29 - August 6.    The lengthy working occasion within the nation’s capital lately mixed with the current WTA San Jose occasion to type the one ATP and WTA 500 stage on the calendar. Early participant commitments embody 4 Grand Slam champions, three former World No.1’s and 4 former D.C. champions.   Get prepared for a heart-pumping summer time of tennis in DC!MDE Tennis introduced the headliners for the 2023 #MubadalaCitiDCOpen right this moment and the preliminary participant discipline is 🔥🔥🔥1st mixed @atptour & @WTA 500 🏆🏆 pic.twitter.com/1SBEpWTMaa — Mubadala Citi DC Open (@mubadalacitidc) June 7, 2023   In...

By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Wednesday, June 7, 2023The physique blow Coco Gauff inflicted on Iga Swiatek wasn't a malicious strike, the sixth seed mentioned afterward.Blistering a backhand drive into the physique, Gauff tattooed the two-time Roland Garros champion knocking her to the filth within the third sport of the second set. Gauff raised her hand and instantly apologized for the strike.More: Swiatek KOs GauffSwiatek shook off the shot, rose from the crimson clay with a swath of crushed crimson brick streaked throughout her shoulder and dusted Gauff 6-4, 6-2, scoring her twelfth straight Roland Garros win to succeed in the semifinals for the third yr.Asked concerning the alternate afterward, Gauff mentioned "I didn't try to hit her."Pointing out she missed the same backh...