Tennis

7:17 AM ET ESPN News Services PARIS — A day after Serena Williams was eliminated from the French Open, 17-year-old Coco Gauff showed the future in tennis for American women is bright. Gauff served superbly to reach her first Grand Slam quarterfinal with a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Ons Jabeur on Monday. Gauff lost only

5:09 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com The stars seemed to be aligning for Serena Williams. By the time she took the court for her fourth-round match against Elena Rybakina at the French Open on Sunday, Williams was the highest-seeded player and the only top-20 player remaining on her side of the draw. In fact, she was

1:23 PM ET ESPN News Services PARIS — Serena Williams could not put together a comeback against a much younger and less-experienced opponent in the fourth round of the French Open, losing 6-3, 7-5 to Elena Rybakina on Sunday. Williams’ defeat came hours after Roger Federer withdrew from the tournament, saying he needed to let

7:45 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com The much-hyped third-round clash at the French Open between Americans Jennifer Brady and Coco Gauff didn’t end the way either had hoped. After Gauff won the first set in just 19 minutes, Brady retired with a foot injury, later revealing it was plantar fasciitis that first flared up at the

11:52 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — Former US Open champion Sloane Stephens wants more discussions about mental health to help people both inside and outside of tennis talk freely about what is troubling them. “Absolutely. I feel like it’s not spoken about enough,” she said Saturday after winning her third-round match at the French

10:20 AM ET ESPN News Services Novak Djokovic has reached the fourth round of the French Open for a record 12th consecutive year. The No. 1-seeded Djokovic has not been pushed yet in any match — or any set, really — in Week 1 at Roland Garros. His latest victory was by a 6-1, 6-4,

7:45 AM ET Associated Press Former runner-up Sloane Stephens advanced to the fourth round of the French Open by beating 18th-seeded Karolina Muchova 6-3, 7-5. Muchova had 23 winners compared to 22 for Stephens but the Czech player made 32 unforced errors to 25 for the unseeded American. Stephens lost the final at Roland Garros

3:44 PM ET Associated Press American Taylor Fritz says that he will require surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee and that he hopes to recover in time to play at Wimbledon. Fritz was hurt on the final point of his second-round loss to Dominik Koepfer at the French Open, and he

7:38 AM ET ESPN News Services Serena Williams recovered from a 4-1 deficit in the second set to post a 6-4, 6-4 win over fellow American Danielle Collins in the third round of the French Open. Williams verbally urged herself to become more aggressive and move her feet more when she trailed in the second

4:45 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com The expectations were high for Ashleigh Barty entering Roland Garros. The world No. 1 won the French Open title in 2019, and she showed evidence of her returned championship form on clay during lead-in events after opting out of the event in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. She collected

9:24 AM ET ESPN News Services Americans Cori Gauff, Sloane Stephens and Sofia Kenin all won their matches Thursday to reach the third round of the French Open Gauff is living up to her career-best ranking of No. 25, advancing by beating Qiang Wang 6-3, 7-6 (1). Gauff earned her first clay-court final when she

9:50 AM ET As he approaches his 23rd birthday in August, Stefanos Tsitsipas has already achieved more than most tennis players ever will: seven career titles (including the 2019 ATP Finals and the 2021 Monte Carlo Masters, his first 1000-level win), three Grand Slam semifinal appearances. Entering the French Open, he had won 25 matches

6:20 PM ET Simon Cambers PARIS — At last year’s French Open, amid the gloom and cold, one thing shone more brightly than anything else: the drop shot. In French, it’s called l’amorti, (the literal translation of which means “cushioning”), and during the cooler, autumn conditions of the 2020 pandemic-altered Roland Garros, it was the

7:05 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com The four women who have beaten Serena Williams in major finals since she returned from childbirth are no longer in Paris for the French Open. Simona Halep pulled out because of injury before the tournament got underway. Angelique Kerber and Bianca Andreescu were upset in the first round. Naomi Osaka

10:52 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Coco Gauff and Venus Williams fell in their first-round doubles match at the French Open on Wednesday. Playing Ellen Perez and Saisai Zheng, the tournament’s No. 13 seeds, in front of a lively crowd on Court 9, the pair won a tiebreak to take the first set but ultimately lost

8:45 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com The sun had long set and there were no fans remaining in the stands by the end of Carla Suarez Navarro‘s first-round match against Sloane Stephens on Tuesday night at the French Open. But the smattering of people who remained in the stadium at Court Simonne-Mathieu — mostly the players’

2:06 PM ET Associated Press The leaders of the four Grand Slam tournaments reacted Tuesday to tennis star Naomi Osaka‘s stunning withdrawal from the French Open by promising to address players’ concerns about mental health. The pledge came in a statement signed by the same four tennis administrators who threatened the possibility of disqualification or

6:30 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Between all the upsets, potential upsets and media obligations controversy early in the French Open, it’s understandable if you missed Sunday’s announcement that Venus Williams and Coco Gauff are teaming up to play doubles at the tournament. Wednesday’s first-round match will be the first time playing together for the 40-year-old