Shapovalov sets up 3rd-round tilt against Alcaraz with win at French Open
Canada's Denis Shapovlaov has advanced to the third round at the French Open for the first time with a 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 win over Italy's Matteo Arnaldi.
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French Open debutant Peyton Stearns stuns ex-champ Jelena Ostapenko - ESPN
PARIS — French Open debutant Peyton Stearns produced the biggest win of her career by defeating former champion Jelena Ostapenko to reach the third round at Roland Garros on Wednesday.
French Open 2023: Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz ready to get started at Roland Garros
PARIS: Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic, two men expected to go far at the French Open, make their 2023 Roland Garros debuts on Monday against a pair of opponents who never have played a Grand Slam match.
French Open 2023 - Ranking the tournament's top players - ESPN
Clay courts can be unpredictable. From 1995 to 2004, before Rafael Nadal claimed Roland Garros as his own personal domain, the French Open gave five men — Thomas Muster, Carlos Moya, Albert Costa, Juan Carlos Ferrero and Gaston Gaudio — their first and only Slam titles. It also gave Gustavo Kuerten all three of his.
Rybakina to clash with Ukraine’s Kalinina in Rome final
ROME: Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina fought from 4-1 down in the second set to overhaul Jelena Ostapenko on Friday to reach the final of the Italian Open.
'Threatening presence' Elena Rybakina wins again; super, spicy Saturday awaits in Rome at the Italian Open
Rybakina shrugs off rain and another former French Open champion Another day, another rain delay at the 2023 Rome Open – but there was no stopping Elena Rybakina as she swept into her fourth final of the year. Ad The Kazakhstan star isn’t a player that would immediately spring to mind when it comes to picking out the leading ladies likely to make waves on clay, but her form in Rome could well make her a dark horse at Roland-Garros.
Anhelina Kalinina overcomes Veronika Kudermetova, to face Elena Rybakina in Italian Open final
Anhelina Kalinina became the lowest-ranked player to reach the Italian Open final since 1986 with a 7-5 5-7 6-2 win over Veronika Kudermetova in Rome. She will face Elena Rybakina in the final after the Wimbledon champion got the better of Jelena Ostapenko 6-2 6-4 in the other semi-final. Ad The Ukrainian Kalinina powered past the 11th seed in two hours and 50 minutes in an intense battle to collect her second top-20 victory in a row (she beate Beatriz Haddad Maia in the previous round) — and only her fifth on clay.
Tennis: Rybakina defeats Ostapenko in rain-delayed Italian Open semi-final
ROME : Seventh seed Elena Rybakina beat Latvia's Jelena Ostapenko 6-2 6-4 in a rain-delayed semi-final at the Italian Open on Friday and will play Anhelina Kalinina in Saturday's final.