Andy Murray 'angry' and 'upset' about Texas school shooting
British tennis player Andy Murray said that last week's Texas school shooting which left 19 children and two teachers dead made him "angry" and was "unbelievably upsetting".
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Andy Murray "Angry" And "Upset" About Texas School Shooting
British tennis player Andy Murray said that last week's Texas school shooting which left 19 children and two teachers dead made him "angry" and was "unbelievably upsetting". Murray was an eight-year pupil at a school in Dunblane, Scotland, in 1996 when a gunman killed 16 young children and a teacher in Britain's worst mass shooting.
Iga Swiatek recovers from rare dropped set to reach French Open quarter-finals
Iga Swiatek dropped a set for the first time in more than a month but stayed on course for the French Open title by beating teenager Zheng Qinwen.
Djokovic and Nadal set rematch as Alcaraz avoids early exit and Raducanu crashes out
The first week of the French Open is all wrapped up and the start of the second has already started, with all of the round-of-16 matches played and the quarter-finals decided. The last-eight has thrown up a long-awaited 59th meeting between Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal - their first match since the world No 1 upset the 13-time champion in the semi-final last year.
French Open: Bopanna-Middelkoop enter maiden doubles semifinals
Rohan Bopanna reached his first Grand Slam semifinal in seven years after he and his Dutch partner Matwe Middelkoop rallied to beat Lloyd Glasspool and Henri Heliovaara in the men's doubles quarterfinals of the French Open, here. The Indo-Dutch pair eked out a 4-6 6-4 7-6 (3) win over the British-Finnish combination in a hard-fought contest on Monday night. Bopanna last reached the semifinals of a tennis Major at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships when he had teamed up with Romania's Florin Mergea and lost in a gruelling five-setter to Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau. Bopanna, 42, and Middelkoop, 38, will face 12th seeds Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Roger on Thursday in the last four.
'I wish I was a man,' says China's Zheng Qinwen as stomach cramps end French Open bid
Zheng Qinwen said severe stomach cramps ruined her hopes of completing a shock French Open win against world number one Iga Swiatek on Monday and left her "wishing I was a man". Zheng, just 19 and playing in her first Roland Garros, took the first set off the top seed before slipping to a 6-7 (5/7), 6-0, 6-2 defeat in their last-16 tie. The world number 74 had needed a medical timeout to strap her injured right leg early in the second set but she revealed that was the least of her concerns.
One last dance? Djokovic and Nadal meet for French Open superiority
Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal prepare to meet for the 59th time in their storied history at the French Open. But could this be their final clash at Roland Garros?