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Peyton Stearns Gets Swiss-Rolled at Roland Garros as Bencic Makes It Look Embarrassingly Easy
The American No. 78 arrived in Paris with dreams of a deep run. She leaves with 25 unforced errors, a 3-6, 3-6 scoreline, and some serious questions about her second serve. PARIS — If you were looking for an upset on Court Suzanne-Lenglen on the…
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Mirra Andreeva Keeps Her Clay-Court Engine Running as Bouzkova Finds No Way Through in Paris
Mirra Andreeva’s clay swing is beginning to look less like a run of good form and more like a young player settling into her natural habitat. The screenshot of her recent results tells the story neatly. Stuttgart, Madrid, Rome, Roland Garros: week after week, Andreeva…
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Swiatek Gets the Polish Duel She Needed as Linette Makes Her Work for Paris Fourth Round
An all-Polish match at Roland Garros is never just another line in the draw, especially when Iga Swiatek is involved. For Magda Linette, this was a chance to trouble the country’s standard-bearer on one of tennis’s biggest stages. For Swiatek, one of the tournament’s major…
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Coco Gauff Survives Mayar Sherif’s Clay-Court Trap as American Hopes Thin Out in Paris
Thirteen American women began the second round in Paris. By the time the third-round board had settled, only five were still there: Gauff, Iva Jovic, Madison Keys, Peyton Stearns and Amanda Anisimova. For one of the deepest national groups in the draw, that was a…
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Qualifier Maja Chwalinska Breaks Through Again as Elise Mertens Falls Apart at Roland Garros
Maja Chwalinska came through qualifying and brought a broom with her. Zheng Qinwen got four games. Elise Mertens got four games. Both were handed second-set bagels. What began as a qualifier’s opening has turned into one of the sharpest raids of this Roland Garros draw.…
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Hailey Baptiste’s Father Rushes From Stands as Horror Roland Garros Injury Ends Breakout Clay Season
Hailey Baptiste had spent the clay season forcing people to learn to spell her name properly. Madrid had done most of the work. Beating Jasmine Paolini was one thing. Beating Belinda Bencic was another. Then came Aryna Sabalenka, world No. 1, and suddenly Baptiste was…
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Two Ukrainian Thoroughbreds Advance as Ostapenko Stumbles in Roland Garros Dark-Horse Race
Marta Kostyuk and Elina Svitolina stayed on course at Roland Garros, giving Ukraine two strong runners still moving through the draw, while Jelena Ostapenko’s outside title charge came to an abrupt halt against Magda Linette. The dark-horse race in Paris already looks different. It leaves…
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Starodubtseva Delivers Roland Garros Thunderclap as Rybakina Falls in Super Tie-Break
Elena Rybakina’s name still carries a particular echo in Paris. Before she became a Grand Slam champion, before she became world No. 2, before her game started to feel like one of the tour’s cleanest arguments for controlled violence, Roland Garros had already seen the…
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Swiatek Moves On in Paris but Bejlek Made the Scoreline Look Cleaner Than the Match
Iga Swiatek is into the third round of Roland Garros, and the scoreboard will not scare anyone on her side of the draw. 6-2, 6-3. Straight sets. Job done. Another step forward in Paris. But this was not the same clean demolition she produced against…
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Roland Garros 2026 Women’s Singles: Results, Draw, Scores & Schedule
The Roland Garros 2026 women’s singles tournament centre gives WTA tennis fans live scores, easy-to-read match results, the full draw, match-ups, and daily updates from Paris. Follow every round from qualifying to the final as the world’s top players compete in the second Grand Slam…
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Kimberly Birrell Finds Her Kylie Minogue Moment in Paris as Pegula Crashes Out of Roland Garros
For one set, Kimberly Birrell looked trapped in the wrong Netflix documentary about an Australian comeback. Not quite Kylie Minogue stating her singing was a five, perhaps, but something painfully close: a player standing on the red clay of Roland Garros, looking across at Jessica…
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The French Open Story Everyone Skips: The Qualifiers Who Stole the First Round
Roland Garros has room for royalty, of course. Aryna Sabalenka opened with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Jessica Bouzas Maneiro. Coco Gauff finished Taylor Townsend off 6-4, 6-0. Victoria Mboko, still carrying that wonderful teenage electricity, swept Nikola Bartunkova aside 6-1, 6-2. That is what…
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Paris Started Throwing Luggage Into the Street but Swiatek, Rybakina and Anisimova Kept Driving
Roland Garros never needs much time to become itself. A few hours of first-round tennis, a little loose clay underfoot, a few players carrying too much form or too much doubt, and suddenly the women’s draw has already started shedding names. Iga Swiatek did what…
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With a Nation Breathing Down Her Neck, Zheng Qinwen Falls Apart in Roland Garros Shock
Paris used to glow for Zheng Qinwen. On Monday, it swallowed her whole. Back on the clay where she became Olympic champion, Zheng was beaten 6-4, 6-0 by qualifier Maja Chwalińska, broke down in tears afterwards and was left facing the brutal reality of a…
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Svitolina Stares Down Bondar Curse and Escapes Roland Garros Thriller
Elina Svitolina came to Roland Garros with Rome still fresh in the legs and belief still warm in the hand. That usually makes a first-round draw feel a little less dangerous. Hungary’s Anna Bondar clearly had other ideas. For long stretches of this 3-6, 6-1,…
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Is Jasmine Paolini Back? French Open Win Over Dangerous Yastremska Offers a Timely Answer
Jasmine Paolini did not get a soft landing in Paris. Not in the heat, not on the clay, and certainly not against Dayana Yastremska, one of those dangerous first-round opponents who can make a draw feel uncomfortable before a tournament has even settled. For Paolini,…
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Naomi Osaka Built a Room of Belonging and Thumbed Down the Backlash
Naomi Osaka came to Roland Garros with a first-round match to prepare for, but her pre-tournament spotlight quickly moved beyond clay, form and forehands. The four-time Grand Slam champion found herself responding to criticism after hosting what she called a “Black party” dinner in Paris,…
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French Open 2026 Women’s Super Tie-Break Rules: What Happens at 6-6 in the Final Set?
For anyone watching the women’s draw at the French Open 2026 and wondering what happens if a match goes all the way to 6-6 in the final set, the answer is simple: there is no old-style advantage set anymore. At Roland-Garros, a women’s singles match…
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Marta Kostyuk Breaks Down After French Open Win as Kyiv Trauma Overshadows Roland Garros Return
Marta Kostyuk arrived at Roland Garros with the sort of form that should have made her opening match feel like a continuation of something thrilling. She was unbeaten on clay in 2026, already a champion in Rouen and Madrid, and back on court with the…
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Navarro Defies the Odds in Strasbourg as American Claims Clay-Court Title Over Mboko
Emma Navarro defied the odds in Strasbourg, and did it by dragging the final back toward the kind of tennis she trusts most. Victoria Mboko arrived as the higher-ranked player, the Canadian power story, and the player carrying the glow of a new partnership with…
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Victoria Mboko Sets Up American-Canadian Strasbourg Final as Fissette Partnership Gains Early Spark
An American-Canadian final awaits on French soil, and Victoria Mboko made sure she would be the Canadian half of it the hard way. After Emma Navarro had already booked her place in the Strasbourg final, wildcard Mboko had to come through a much rougher semifinal…