46 h. ago Sabalenka ends Swiatek’s reign on clay to set up French Open final against Gauff

World No1 wins 7-6 (1), 4-6, 6-0 as champion crumblesGauff ends Boisson’s fairytale run with 6-1, 6-2 routAfter successfully devoting the past few years of her life to becoming a more well-rounded player and mentally durable individual, Aryna Sabalenka arrived on court for her second French Open semi-final certain that she was finally ready for more. No challenge, not even the task of ending an era of total dominance at Roland Garros, felt beyond her.In the face of her greatest rival on the court Iga Swiatek has made her own, Sabalenka converted her phenomenal form and fortitude into one of the most significant victories of her career as she held her nerve in three delicious, tension filled sets to topple the four-time French Open champion 7-6 (1), 4-6, 6-0 and reach the final at Roland Garros for the first time in her career. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Swiatek sweeps past Svitolina to set up Sabalenka showdown at French Open

Four-time Roland Garros champion victorious 6-1, 7-5Belarusian gets better of Zheng Qinwen in straight setsAryna Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek will take their era-defining rivalry to the latter stages of the French Open for the first time as they reached the semi-finals.Sabalenka, the world No 1, edged past Zheng Qinwen, the eighth seed, 7-6 (3), 6-3 to end the Olympic gold medalist’s 10-match winning streak at Roland Garros. Sabalenka has reached the last four in nine of her past 10 grand slam tournaments, her only earlier loss coming in the quarter-finals in Paris last year when she was suffering from food poisoning. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago French Open 2025: Iga Swiatek beats Elena Rybakina in thriller as Aryna Sabalenka eases into quarter

Swiatek has not lost at Roland Garros since 2021

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5 d. ago Iga Swiatek stages stunning comeback to reach French Open quarter

Defending champion beats Elena Rybakina 1-6, 6-3, 7-5Swiatek to face Elina Svitolina in last eightAfter another sad second serve rebounded off the top of the net and floated out on a break point, Iga Swiatek turned to her support team and frantically gestured her rage. She had simply not shown up. As Elena Rybakina bulldozed through the early stages of their highly anticipated fourth-round tussle, Swiatek trailed 6-1, 2-0 and her hopes of victory were fading.For much of this year, Swiatek has struggled to find her form when forced into difficult positions against her toughest rivals. However, she showed her resilience here with a supreme 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 statement win against the 12th seed Elena Rybakina, to return to the quarter-finals of the French Open. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago French Open: Alcaraz beats Dzumhur, Rybakina sets up Swiatek clash – as it happened

Elena Rybakina demolished Jelena Ostapenko while Carlos Alcaraz surprisingly dropped a set against Damir DzumhurXheng goes through, having beaten Mboko 6-3 6-4. Amanda Anisimova, the American is involved in a ding dong with Denmark’s Clara Tauson. The first set went to Anismova 7-6, and it’s 3-3 in the second set.Sabalenka claims the first set, having swiftly pulled her game back together after losing those two games. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago French Open: Alcaraz in action, Rybakina sets up Swiatek clash – live

Live Roland Garros updates from 10am BSTWhy not email Tom with thoughts on the actionXheng goes through, having beaten Mboko 6-3 6-4. Amanda Anisimova, the American is involved in a ding dong with Denmark’s Clara Tauson. The first set went to Anismova 7-6, and it’s 3-3 in the second set.Sabalenka claims the first set, having swiftly pulled her game back together after losing those two games. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago French Open: Rybakina sets up Swiatek clash, Alcaraz to come on day six – live

Live Roland Garros updates from 10am BSTWhy not email Tom with thoughts on the actionXheng goes through, having beaten Mboko 6-3 6-4. Amanda Anisimova, the American is involved in a ding dong with Denmark’s Clara Tauson. The first set went to Anismova 7-6, and it’s 3-3 in the second set.Sabalenka claims the first set, having swiftly pulled her game back together after losing those two games. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago French Open day six: Paolini and Rybakina in action, Swiatek and Sabalenka advance – live

Live Roland Garros updates from 10am BSTWhy not email Luke with thoughts on the actionXheng goes through, having beaten Mboko 6-3 6-4. Amanda Anisimova, the American is involved in a ding dong with Denmark’s Clara Tauson. The first set went to Anismova 7-6, and it’s 3-3 in the second set.Sabalenka claims the first set, having swiftly pulled her game back together after losing those two games. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago French Open 2025: Swiatek, Rune and Sabalenka all advance on day six – live

Live Roland Garros updates from 10am BSTWhy not email Tom with thoughts on the actionXheng goes through, having beaten Mboko 6-3 6-4. Amanda Anisimova, the American is involved in a ding dong with Denmark’s Clara Tauson. The first set went to Anismova 7-6, and it’s 3-3 in the second set.Sabalenka claims the first set, having swiftly pulled her game back together after losing those two games. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago French Open 2025: Swiatek and Rune in action, Sabalenka wins on day six – live

Live Roland Garros updates from 10am BSTWhy not email Tom with thoughts on the actionXheng goes through, having beaten Mboko 6-3 6-4. Amanda Anisimova, the American is involved in a ding dong with Denmark’s Clara Tauson. The first set went to Anismova 7-6, and it’s 3-3 in the second set.Sabalenka claims the first set, having swiftly pulled her game back together after losing those two games. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago French Open 2025: Sabalenka in action, Raducanu thrashed by Swiatek and more on day four – live

Live coverage from Roland Garros from 10am BSTMatch report: Swiatek dismantles Raducanu Send Daniel an email with your thoughtsAnisimova has a set point, leading 5-0 and 30-40 on Golubic’s serve. And an errant forehand from Golubic concedes the set. Victoria Azarenka served up an early double bagel yesterday; we could have another this morning.As for Zheng Qinwen, the last woman to win at Roland Garros, having claimed the Olympic singles title last summer, she’s 2-1 up on serve against Emiliana Arango, the 24-year-old Colombian. And Lorenzo Musetti, the Italian 8th seed who’s in fine form on the clay, he’s got himself an early break and leads another Colombian, the lucky loser Daniel Elahi Galan, 3-2. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Swiatek dismantles Raducanu to maintain quest for fourth French Open title in a row

Defending champion sweeps aside Raducanu 6-1, 6-2Swiatek extends record to 5-0 against British opponentJust a couple of weeks after stressing the importance of playing against the best players in the world more frequently in order to improve her own game, Emma Raducanu found herself up against the greatest of them all. She walked out onto Court Philippe-Chatrier on Wednesday afternoon facing the toughest challenge in her sport.The task of facing Iga Swiatek at the French Open, her fortress, was unsurprisingly too much for Raducanu and in the second successive grand slam tournament she was dismantled by her imperious opponent, the fifth seed, who eased into the third round at Roland Garros with a 6-1, 6-2 win. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago French Open 2025: Raducanu thrashed by Swiatek, Alcaraz through and more on day four – live

Live coverage from Roland Garros from 10am BSTSend Daniel an email with your thoughtsAnisimova has a set point, leading 5-0 and 30-40 on Golubic’s serve. And an errant forehand from Golubic concedes the set. Victoria Azarenka served up an early double bagel yesterday; we could have another this morning.As for Zheng Qinwen, the last woman to win at Roland Garros, having claimed the Olympic singles title last summer, she’s 2-1 up on serve against Emiliana Arango, the 24-year-old Colombian. And Lorenzo Musetti, the Italian 8th seed who’s in fine form on the clay, he’s got himself an early break and leads another Colombian, the lucky loser Daniel Elahi Galan, 3-2. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago French Open: Emma Raducanu crashes out after another heavy defeat to Iga Swiatek

Raducanu has won just four games across two matches against Swiatek at Grand Slams this year

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1 week ago French Open 2025: Raducanu v Swiatek, Alcaraz through, Ruud out and more on day four – live

Live coverage from Roland Garros from 10am BSTSend Daniel an email with your thoughtsAnisimova has a set point, leading 5-0 and 30-40 on Golubic’s serve. And an errant forehand from Golubic concedes the set. Victoria Azarenka served up an early double bagel yesterday; we could have another this morning.As for Zheng Qinwen, the last woman to win at Roland Garros, having claimed the Olympic singles title last summer, she’s 2-1 up on serve against Emiliana Arango, the 24-year-old Colombian. And Lorenzo Musetti, the Italian 8th seed who’s in fine form on the clay, he’s got himself an early break and leads another Colombian, the lucky loser Daniel Elahi Galan, 3-2. Continue reading...

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1 week ago French Open 2025: Alcaraz through, Ruud out, Raducanu v Swiatek and more on day four – live

Live coverage from Roland Garros from 10am BSTSend Daniel an email with your thoughtsAnisimova has a set point, leading 5-0 and 30-40 on Golubic’s serve. And an errant forehand from Golubic concedes the set. Victoria Azarenka served up an early double bagel yesterday; we could have another this morning.As for Zheng Qinwen, the last woman to win at Roland Garros, having claimed the Olympic singles title last summer, she’s 2-1 up on serve against Emiliana Arango, the 24-year-old Colombian. And Lorenzo Musetti, the Italian 8th seed who’s in fine form on the clay, he’s got himself an early break and leads another Colombian, the lucky loser Daniel Elahi Galan, 3-2. Continue reading...

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1 week ago French Open 2025: Alcaraz v Marozsan, Raducanu v Swiatek and more on day four – live

Live coverage from Roland Garros from 10am BSTSend Daniel an email with your thoughtsAnisimova has a set point, leading 5-0 and 30-40 on Golubic’s serve. And an errant forehand from Golubic concedes the set. Victoria Azarenka served up an early double bagel yesterday; we could have another this morning.As for Zheng Qinwen, the last woman to win at Roland Garros, having claimed the Olympic singles title last summer, she’s 2-1 up on serve against Emiliana Arango, the 24-year-old Colombian. And Lorenzo Musetti, the Italian 8th seed who’s in fine form on the clay, he’s got himself an early break and leads another Colombian, the lucky loser Daniel Elahi Galan, 3-2. Continue reading...

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1 week ago French Open 2025: Raducanu v Swiatek, Sabalenka and Alcaraz in action on day four

Live coverage from Roland Garros from 10am BSTSend Katy an email with your thoughtsOns Jabeur, who lost in the first round yesterday, has called out organisers for not scheduling women’s matches in the night slot, saying: “I don’t think they have daughters.” Last year all 11 prime-time matches featured men, and that’s been the case too for the first four days of this year’s tournament – tonight 12th seed Holger Rune will face the American world No 137 Emilio Nava – so it’s hardly the contest of the day. Why couldn’t, say, Swiatek and Raducanu have played their match this evening? What’s more baffling about the French Open’s stance is that Amelie Mauresmo – who does have a daughter – is the tournament director. You’d think she’d be more keen to promote the women’s game.The players are out on another overcast day in Paris, so expect heavy conditions again. Among the early starters: the Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen, the red-hot Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the Canadian teenage winning mac...

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1 week ago French Open: Emma Raducanu to face Iga Swiatek after battling first

Raducanu appeared to be struggling with illness late in first set but earned hard-fought win in almost three hours

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1 week ago Emma Raducanu admits struggle in gritty French Open win over Wang Xinyu

7-5, 4-6, 6-3 win sets up second-round tie against SwiatekRaducanu took medical timeout towards end of first setEmma Raducanu arrived in Paris towards the end of last week fully preoccupied by her recovery from the back spasms she had suffered days earlier. Her expectations accordingly lowered, she deservingly started her French Open on a high by demonstrating her mental toughness throughout an excellent, gritty 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 win over Xinyu Wang of China to reach the second round at Roland Garros.Raducanu will now face one of the toughest challenges possible in professional tennis as she takes on the four-time French Open champion Iga Swiatek. Swiatek, who is attempting to win an open era record fourth consecutive title at Roland Garros, opened her title defence with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Rebecca Sramkova and Raducanu said of the match-up: “I’m very happy to give myself another chance. I felt the noise around the match [against Swiatek] before we’d played the first round. I’m looking ...

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