9:45 PM ET Dylan Alcott has become the first Roland Garros quad wheelchair champion after defeating American and longtime rival David Wagner in a three set epic. While the spotlight was on fellow Australian Ashleigh Barty claiming her first Grand Slam title, Alcott was making history of his own after he downed Wagner 6-2, 4-6,
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3:00 PM ET Simon Cambers PARIS — How do you solve a problem like Rafael Nadal, especially on the clay courts of Roland Garros? It is the question facing Dominic Thiem as the Austrian prepares for Sunday’s men’s final at the 2019 French Open. The good news is that it’s a question he asked himself
1:32 PM ET PARIS — Ashleigh Barty decided to take a break from tennis in 2014 to play cricket. After almost a few years away, she returned and won her first Grand Slam title Saturday at the French Open with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Marketa Vondrousova. One of the more well-liked players on the
1:13 PM ET The 2019 French Open will have a women’s final that nobody would have dared predict before the tournament started: Ashleigh Barty vs. Marketa Vondrousova. The former is a burned-out prodigy reborn at age 23, on the verge of becoming the first Australian since Margaret Court in 1973 to win the red-dirt championships.
1:24 PM ET Simon Cambers PARIS — The second French Open semifinal between world No 1 Novak Djokovic and fourth seed Dominic Thiem will resume on Saturday after it was held over from Friday because of rain. The pair were level at one set apiece, with Thiem leading 3-1 in the third when the players
1:36 PM ET PARIS — Same superlatives, different day. Roger Federer returned to the French Open after a three-year absence with every intention of putting himself on a collision course with Rafael Nadal, the most inexorable force ever on Roland Garros’ red clay courts. He got double the opposition he’d wished for in Friday’s semifinal:
1:05 PM ET Simon Cambers PARIS — In the early stages of his career, Roger Federer had a problem with left-handers. He lost four of his first seven matches, and eight of his first 20, against them. Something about the different spin, the different look, threw him off. Over time, as he honed his game
3:54 PM ET Simon Cambers PARIS — Ash Barty was only 15 when she won the junior title at Wimbledon, a prodigy with a slice-and-dice game style tailor-made for grass. Three years later, burned out and struggling with depression, she quit tennis and took up professional cricket instead. Had she not taken the 18-month break,
1:15 PM ET Simon Cambers PARIS — When 17-year-old Amanda Anisimova steps onto court for her first-ever Grand Slam semifinal at the 2019 French Open on Friday, there will be no nerves, for one simple reason. She doesn’t do them. “I’m not nervous at all,” the American told ESPN.com shortly after beating defending French Open
2:17 PM ET PARIS — For the sixth time, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will face off at Roland Garros. Nadal is 5-0 in their previous meetings, but will Federer have the upper hand this time around in his return to the French Open for the first time since 2015? Our experts preview Friday’s semifinals