Players.bio is a large online platform sharing the best live coverage of your favourite sports: Football, Golf, Rugby, Cricket, F1, Boxing, NFL, NBA, plus the latest sports news, transfers & scores. Exclusive interviews, fresh photos and videos, breaking news. Stay tuned to know everything you wish about your favorite stars 24/7. Check our daily updates and make sure you don't miss anything about celebrities' lives.
PARIS :Crowd darling Richard Gasquet got to fight another day in his final French Open appearance as he dispatched fellow Frenchman Terence Atmane 6-2 2-6 6-3 6-0 in the first round on Monday.
Title rivals Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner start their French Open campaigns on Monday as three-time reigning champion Iga Swiatek hopes a return to Roland Garros can shake her out of a slump. Alcaraz beat Sinner in straight sets in the Italian Open final just over a week ago as the Italian world number one returned from a three-month doping ban. The Spaniard edged Sinner in five sets in the semi-finals at Roland Garros last year and believes the two-time reigning Australian Open champion will pose an even greater threat to his crown in Paris after brushing off the cobwebs in Rome.
PARIS : World number one Jannik Sinner, making his return to Grand Slam action following a doping suspension, was placed in a loaded top half of the French Open draw on Thursday alongside Novak Djokovic and last year's runner-up Alexander Zverev.
PARIS :The French Open will pay tribute to record 14-times champion Rafa Nadal on the opening day of the Grand Slam next month, a year after the Spaniard played his final match on the clay of Roland Garros, organisers said on Thursday.
Jenson Brooksby held off three straight match points during the third-set tiebreaker while recovering for a 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (6) victory over Alejandro Tabilo of Chile in the second round of the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship in Houston.
Frenchman Richard Gasquet saved a match point and rallied past Brazil's Thiago Monteiro 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (6) to kick off his final appearance at the Moselle Open on Monday in Metz, France.
Richard Gasquet, the former No. 7 tennis player, has revealed his plans to retire next year after Roland Garros, a clay court major.Gasquet has won 16 ATP Tour titles, most recently last year in Auckland. He has claimed 36 victories against Top 10 opponents and competed in the ATP Finals twice, in 2007 and 2013. The Frenchman was the semifinalist at Wimbledon (2007 and 2015) and the US Open (2013). "I think that it is the best moment for me to do it. It is the best tournament to do it. It's magnificent, we have the chance being French to be able to stop in these kind of incredible places. An end, it's always complicated, all the former great players always told me it's not easy to announce. You never know when, how, where. Here, in any case, it is obvious," Gasquet said in an interview with French national sports daily L'Equipe.
LONDON :Seventh seed Hubert Hurkacz became the third men's top-eight player to make an early exit as he retired from his second-round clash against Frenchman Arthur Fils with a knee injury on Thursday.