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PARIS — Carlos Alcaraz and the person he simply changed atop the rankings, 22-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic, had been positioned in the identical half of the French Open subject in Thursday’s draw and will face one another within the semifinals. ...

By Erik Gudris | @atntennis | Friday, May 26, 2023     Ons Jabeur    , after enduring damage points for a lot of the clay season, says she is match and prepared forward of this 12 months’s Roland Garros.   The No. 7 seeded Tunisian, nonetheless seeking her first main singles title, is wanting ahead to the Parisian clay after coping with a calf damage in most of the lead-up occasions to the second Grand Slam of the 12 months.   “Well, injury-wise I'm feeling much better, and I had a very nice week of training here at the French Open. I'm going to do my best and hopefully do better than last year,” Jabeur stated in a pre-event press convention.    When requested if she was 100%, she replied “Yeah, definitely 100%. I was training with a lot of players, moving normally.”   "Les ...

Grigor Dimitrov superior to his first closing on the ATP Tour in additional than 5 years on Friday after beating Taylor Fritz 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (2) on the Geneva Open. ...

By Erik Gudris | @atntennis | Friday, May 26, 2023 Amazing.   That was the phrase Daniil Medvedev used time and again to explain his feeling at simply profitable the Rome title final week.The No. 2 seeded Medvedev can also be hoping that profitable his first ever clay courtroom title bodes properly for his probabilities at Roland Garros.   Yet, the charismatic Russian was fast to level out that he’s not getting forward of himself simply but in considering he can win Paris outright.   “I don't know (smiling). Because I also don't want to put too much pressure on myself, in a way," Medvedev said. "But what happened in Rome was amazing, especially beating a lot of good players, you know: Zverev, Tsitsipas, Rune, Zapata Miralles, Ruusuvuori who went three sets with Alcaraz in Madri...

Play within the 12 months’s second Grand Slam match begins Sunday at Roland Garros, and for the primary time in almost 20 years, Rafael Nadal is not going to be competing within the French Open. ...

By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Friday, May 26, 2023Grand Slam tennis is an academic expertise for Carlos Alcaraz.Contesting simply the ninth main event of his profession,  Alcaraz stands atop the Roland Garros subject as a Grand Slam high seed for the primary time in his profession.More: Alcaraz, Djokovic in Same Half of Roland Garros DrawSo what is the distinction between as we speak's world No. 1 and the Alcaraz who reached the Roland Garros quarterfinals final June earlier than bowing to Alexander Zverev  6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(7) in an amazing three hour, 18-minute battle?Though he is not hitting the books, Alcaraz says he is extra properly learn this yr."Well, talking about tennis, I would say I'm the same player than last year, only change that Iwould say is that I'm more matu...

All of these questions on who would step to the fore as soon as Serena Williams walked away from the tennis tour - becoming a member of newer No. 1 Ash Barty in retirement - appear to be getting answered with three names: Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina. ...

By Erik Gudris | @atntennis | Friday, May 26, 2023For gamers competing of their international locations’ Major, there’s at all times a combination of delight and strain to carry out nicely in entrance of the house followers.That’s very true at Roland Garros the place the Parisian crowd can both be a participant’s greatest cheerleader or their greatest critic.More: Swiatek, Sabalenka Face Tough Tests in RG Draw No. 4 seed Caroline Garcia finds herself in new territory this yr in Paris as the very best and solely seeded French singles participant on both the boys’s or ladies’s attracts. With French singles champions on the occasion few and much between (Mary Pierce was the final French singles champion in 2000), may Garcia be the one to boost the trophy for her first-ever Grand Slam ...

By Richard Pagliaro | Friday, May 26, 2023This 2023 Roland Garros may be seen as a symbolic passing of the torch.More: Swiatek, Sabalenka Face Tough Tests in RG DrawWorld No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz desires of shared Spanish mission beneath the Olympic torch.Meeting the media at Roland Garros earlier than launching his first Grand Slam as No. 1 seed, Alcaraz shared a significant dream: Share the courtroom with hero Rafa Nadal as a Spanish doubles dream group at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.The 36-year-old Nadal introduced he goals to play a 2024 farewell season.Alcaraz stated he desires of a forming a doubles duo with Nadal, who received the 2016 Olympic doubles gold medal with Marc Lopez, now part of his teaching group."For me, it could be a dream playing doubles with him, you know, in the...

By Richard Pagliaro | Friday, May 26, 2023Splitting with coach Mark Philippoussis was a mutual choice, says Stefanos Tsitsipas. The 2021 Roland Garros runner-up stated his want to streamline his group and simplify his tactical strategy have been components within the choice, too. Apostolos Tsitsipas, Stefanos' father, stays his coach.More: Swiatek, Sabalenka Face Tough Tests in RG DrawFormer Wimbledon finalist Philippoussis helped information Tsitsipas to the Australian Open remaining final January.The choice to half firm along with his coach every week earlier than the beginning of Roland Garros might recommend instability. However assembly the media in Paris right now, Tsitsipas stated with regards to teaching, much less is extra at this level in his profession."It's never easy hav...