Relive the top shots from the 2025 French Open
Relive the top shots from the 2025 French Open
May 25: Tommy Paul of the United States returns a shot against Elmer Moller of Denmark on Day 1 at Roland Garros Stadium. Susan Mullane, Imagn Images
May 25: Qinwen Zheng of China serves during her match against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova on Day 1 at Roland Garros Stadium. Susan Mullane, Imagn Images
May 25: France's Frances Tiafoe in action during his first round match against Russia's Roman Safiullin at the French Open. Lisi Niesner, Reuters
May 25: Belarus' Aryna Sabalenka in action during her first round match against Russia's Kamilla Rakhimova at the French Open. Denis Balibouse, Reuters
May 25: Belgium's Zizou Bergs in action during his first round match against France's Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard at the French Open. Lisi Niesner, Reuters
May 25: France's Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard reacts during his first round match against Belgium's Zizou Bergs at the French Open. Lisi Niesner, Reuters
May 25: Ukraine's Elina Svitolina in action during her first round match against Turkey's Zeynep Sonmez at the French Open. Lisi Niesner, Reuters
May 25: Turkey's Zeynep Sonmez in action during her first round match against Ukraine's Elina Svitolina at the French Open. Lisi Niesner, Reuters
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Yahoo
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- Yahoo
French Open: 361st-ranked Frenchwoman Boisson upsets No. 3 Pegula. Gauff, Djokovic and Sinner win
PARIS (AP) — Loïs Boisson never had played at the French Open, let alone in the biggest arena at Roland-Garros. Nothing fazed the French wild-card entry and now she is in the quarterfinals. Boisson, ranked just 361st, threw her head back and roared after beating No. 3 seed Jessica Pegula 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 on Court Philippe-Chatrier in the fourth round Monday. Advertisement She is by far the lowest-ranked woman to beat someone ranked in the top five at the French Open in 40 years. The lowest previously in that span was No. 179 Aniko Kapros, who eliminated No. 5 Justine Henin in the first round in 2002. Boisson also is the lowest-ranked woman to reach the quarterfinals at Roland-Garros since at least 1985. Quite a victory, considering Pegula was the U.S. Open runner-up last year. Understandably, Boisson was nervous as she served for the match and saved three break points. After Pegula missed an easy-looking winner at the net and clutched her head in her hands, Boisson had her first match point, the biggest point of her career. Advertisement Pegula returned a strong serve to the back of the court, where Boisson unleashed a forehand winner down the line. She then raised her arms and realized the enormity of her win. 'Thank you to all of you," Boisson told the crowd in her post-match interview. 'Playing on this court with such an atmosphere was really incredible.' Boisson made the notoriously hard-to-please crowd laugh when she added: 'I'm really happy on here. I can stay a long time if you like.' The crowd broke into chants of 'Loïs! Loïs!" and she waved back to them. She is the only French singles player left in either bracket and feels comfortable on clay, having played on it regularly since taking up tennis when she was 8. Advertisement Asked what her ambitions were for the rest of the tournament — she plays sixth-seeded Mirra Andreeva on Wednesday in the quarterfinals — Boisson replied, 'I hope to win, right?' That prompted more laughter from the crowd, which included tournament director Amelie Mauresmo, who has been criticized for the lack of women's matches during night sessions. What else happened at the French Open on Monday? Another women's quarterfinal was set up between No. 2 Coco Gauff and No. 7 Madison Keys, two Americans who each own one Grand Slam title. Gauff, the 2023 U.S. Open champion, won 6-0, 7-5 against No. 20 Ekaterina Alexandrova, and Keys, the Australian Open title winner in January, defeated yet another American, Hailey Baptiste, 6-3, 7-5. Advertisement Over on Court Suzanne-Lenglen, the 18-year-old Andreeva, who reached the semifinals at Roland-Garros last year for her best performance at a major, got past No. 17 Daria Kasatkina 7-5, 6-3. They are pals, and Kasatkina playfully threw her wristband at Andreeva when they came to the net; Andreeva joked she would keep it. In men's action, Novak Djokovic earned his 100th career French Open victory and set up a quarterfinal against No. 3 Alexander Zverev, last year's runner-up. No. 62 Alexander Bublik surprised No. 5 Jack Draper 5-7, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 and next meets No. 1 Jannik Sinner, a 6-1, 6-3, 6-4 winner over No. 17 Andrey Rublev on Monday night. Sinner has won 18 consecutive Grand Slam matches. Djokovic overwhelmed Cam Norrie 6-2, 6-3, 6-2, and Zverev was leading 6-4, 3-0 when Tallon Griekspoor quit because of an abdominal strain. Who is playing at Roland-Garros on Tuesday? Advertisement The quarterfinals get started on Day 10. The women's matches are No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka vs. Olympic champion Qinwen Zheng, and three-time defending champion Iga Swiatek against No. 13 Elina Svitolina. The men's matches are No. 8 Lorenzo Musetti vs. No. 15 Frances Tiafoe, and defending champion Carlos Alcaraz vs. No. 12 Tommy Paul at night. Tiafoe and Paul give the United States two men's quarterfinalists for the first time since Jim Courier and Pete Sampras in 1996. There hadn't even been one from the country since Andre Agassi in 2003. ___ AP tennis: Jerome Pugmire, The Associated Press
Fox Sports
an hour ago
- Fox Sports
2025 French Open odds: Can Novak Djokovic win 25th major title?
Some are going for their first major title, and one is going for his 25th. The French Open, or Roland Garros, is currently taking place in Paris, France. It is the second major tennis tournament of the year — after the Australian Open, and before Wimbledon and the US Open. Both the men's and women's fields are down to eight players, including 24-time grand slam champion Novak Djokovic on the men's side. Can Nole make it 25? And on the women's side, can Iga Świątek make it four straight wins at Roland Garros, giving her five French Open titles overall? Let's check out the odds at DraftKings Sportsbook as of June 2 (seeding in parentheses). French Open 2025 men's winner Carlos Alcaraz (2): +100 (bet $10 to win $20 total)Jannik Sinner (1): +140 (bet $10 to win $24 total)Novak Djokovic (6): +900 (bet $10 to win $100 total)Alexander Zverev (3): +1400 (bet $10 to win $150 total)Lorenzo Musetti (8): +2200 (bet $10 to win $230 total)Tommy Paul (12): +8000 (bet $10 to win $810 total)Alexander Bublik: +8000 (bet $10 to win $810 total) Frances Tiafoe (15): +13000 (bet $10 to win $1,310 total) French Open 2025 women's winner Iga Świątek (5): +220 (bet $10 to win $32 total)Aryna Sabalenka (1): +220 (bet $10 to win $32 total)Mirra Andreeva (6): +370 (bet $10 to win $47 total)Coco Gauff (2): +500 (bet $10 to win $60 total)Qinwen Zheng (8): +1400 (bet $10 to win $150 total)Madison Keys (7): +1800 (bet $10 to win $190 total)Elina Svitolina (13): +3000 (bet $10 to win $310 total) Lois Boisson: +8000 (bet $10 to win $810 total) Djokovic, 38, already owns the most grand slam titles in men's tennis history with 24. His last major win came at the 2023 US Open. In 2024, Carlos Alcaraz (French Open, Wimbledon) and Jannik Sinner (Australian Open, US Open) each won two major titles, and Sinner won the Australian Open at the start of this season. Alcaraz, 22, has four majors to his name, while Sinner, 23, has three. Djokovic will face Alexander Zverev in the quarterfinals on Wednesday. The two have faced off 13 times, with Djoker winning eight times. However, they've split their last six meetings, with Zverev winning two of the last three (Djokovic retired after the first set of their 2025 Australian Open semifinal matchup). Djokovic is the -120 favorite in that match. On the women's side, Świątek has won four of the last five French Opens, including four in a row. She is riding a 25-match winning streak at Roland Garros. Świątek will face Elina Svitolina in the quarterfinals on Wednesday. Świątek has won three of their four all-time matchups. Świątek is the -350 favorite in that tilt. Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? Create or log in to your FOX Sports account, and follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily! Get more from Tennis Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more
New York Times
an hour ago
- New York Times
French Open recap: Mirra Andreeva, Daria Kasatkina and tennis friendships
Follow The Athletic's French Open coverage Welcome to the French Open briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories on each day of the tournament. On day nine, two good friends showed off the two sides of knowing each other's games, a day of freshness arrived for two quarterfinalists and a window of opportunity opened for Jannik Sinner's next opponent. Unless you are Zheng Qinwen, who has strategically decided that she cannot be friends with anyone on the WTA Tour because it would make competing with them too difficult, playing a big match against a buddy eventually happens. On Monday it was Mirra Andreeva and Daria Kasatkina's turn. For the 18-year-old Andreeva, Kasatkina, with a decade more of wear on her tires, has become a significant role model. They are both Russian by birth and irreverent souls by spirit. Andreeva often appears on Kasatkina's vlog documenting her escapades on the tour. Advertisement Last fall Kasatkina, consoled Andreeva after beating her in the Ningbo final. No more consoling is necessary. Andreeva, now the world No. 6, is 11 spots ahead of Kasatkina. When she beat her in the round of 16 Monday, Kasatkina threw her wristband at the teenager as they approached the net after Andreeva's straight-sets win. Andreeva loved it. Playing against a friend is way easier than it once was. 'I don't know what changed, but today was not that hard to, you know, kind of change my mindset and step on court and kind of be opponents,' she said. 'I managed to kind of tell myself that I'm playing against the ball, not against the opponent. I just tried to focus on the ball that I have to hit.' For, Kasatkina, a regular practice partner for Andreeva, an adjustment might be in order, especially in terms of showing Andreeva the ropes. 'If I'm responsible for her matureness, then I have to now shut up,' she said. Matt Futterman Given the problems Dutch player Tallon Griekspoor has given world No. 3 Alexander Zverev previously, Novak Djokovic would have been forgiven for hoping for more of the same on Monday. When Zverev and Griekspoor met at Roland Garros last year, the match went all the way to a fith-set tiebreak. The duo also went the distance at Indian Wells, Calif. earlier this year, this time in three sets. Going into Monday's round of 16 at the French Open, Djokovic knew that if he could get past Cameron Norrie, he'd be playing the winner of the latest instalment of Griekspoor vs. Zverev. Another battle royale would suit him just fine. Another seesaw battle looked possible early on, when Griekspoor broke early for 3-0. But the Dutchman had suffered an abdominal injury in practice earlier that day, and after 13 games, he had to retire when trailing 6-4, 3-0. A nice bonus for Zverev, who will want all the rest he can get before the big tests ahead. Zverev said after beating Griekspoor that he would definitely be watching Djokovic's match against Norrie, and he too would have been hoping for a tiring, drawn-out affair. Given Norrie's ability to run all day and turn matches into wars of attrition, he might have held out some hope. He ended up disappointed, as Djokovic eased to a 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 win in two hours and 14 minutes. Advertisement Djokovic and Zverev should both be well rested then for Wednesday's meeting, which should make for a competitive, very physical match. When they met at the Australian Open in January, the first set alone lasted 81 minutes, before Djokovic retired with the hamstring injury he'd picked up in the previous round against Carlos Alcaraz. Zverev knows that he'll be facing a far less physically compromised Djokovic this time around. Charlie Eccleshare Men's world No. 1 Jannik Sinner has lost just 11 games in his past two matches, and he was almost as dominant in his 6-1, 6-3, 6-4 win over Andrey Rublev Monday as he had been in the previous round against Jiří Lehečka. Rublev, the No. 17 seed, and Lehečka, the world No. 34, are by no means weak opposition, but they are both pretty one-dimensional. Rublev and Lehečka play in much the same style as Sinner, and he just does just about everything better than they do. Both tried to outhit the Italian; both were left shaking their heads at the futility of their approach. There isn't exactly a winning strategy for beating Sinner right now, apart from being Carlos Alcaraz, but the Italian's next opponent, Alexander Bublik, has some of the tools that make Alcaraz such a difficult opponent. What discomfits Sinner is changes in rhythm: being asked to hit balls that are coming with different heights, speeds, and spins is one of the only tennis questions that he is yet to fully answer, especially on clay. Bublik, a mercurial talent from Kazakhstan, is capable of asking that question. He has a massive serve and power off the ground, but he's also one of the trickiest, most unpredictable players on the tour. He fried No. 5 seed Jack Draper's brain in a four-set win Monday and will ask Sinner different questions than the minimal ones Rublev and Lehecka have posed over the last few days. Advertisement It's hard to make a case for Bublik ultimately winning the match, but it has better evidence than just about everybody else in the ATP top 30 can muster. Charlie Eccleshare There are plenty of layers to the upcoming quarterfinal matchup between Coco Gauff and Madison Keys. It's a matchup of styles, a matchup between the two most recent Grand Slam champions from the U.S.. It's also a matchup between two women who have lived the hype of being the next big thing. Keys has had the benefit of watching Gauff live that in real time. She's known Gauff since she was a pre-teen and has watched her evolve from a hot prospect into a seasoned pro, the same thing that she had to do roughly a decade before. 'I'm always really impressed with the fact that she handles it so well, because she's had even more success and more media attention than I had, and I know that it was definitely really hard for me,' Keys said Monday after beating another hot young American prospect, Hailey Baptiste, in straight sets. 'I feel like you watch her, and she just takes it all in stride and continues to just be 100 percent her, and I'm always just really impressed by it.' Matt Futterman Tell us what you noticed on the eighth day… (Top photo of Daria Kasatkina and Mirra Andreeva: Robert Prange / Getty Images; design: Eamonn Dalton / The Athletic)
