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Kostyuk beats Świątek for the first time, ending the four-time champion’s Roland-Garros earliest exit in seven years
Marta Kostyuk (No 15) beat Iga Świątek (No 3) 7-5, 6-1 on Court Philippe-Chatrier. It's the four-time Roland-Garros champion's earliest defeat at the tournament since 2019, and Kostyuk's first ever win over the Pole in four meetings. Whoever comes through this half of the draw will reach their first Grand Slam final.
May 31, 2009: The day Rafael Nadal lost at Roland-Garros for the first time
Every day, Tennis Majors takes you back in time to relive a tennis event which happened on this specific day. On May 31, 2009, the unthinkable happened, as Rafael Nadal went down to Sweden's Robin Soderling in a massive upset
Defending champion Gauff out of Roland-Garros in the third round; Potapova confirms marvellous clay-court spring
Anastasia Potapova edged out the defending champion Coco Gauff 4-6, 7-6 (1), 6-4 on Saturday evening and will play Russian Anna Kalinskaya, the No 22 seed, in the next round
Berrettini and Cerúndolo, the Sinner conqueror, both come through five-set marathons to set up a round-of-16 meeting at Roland-Garros
Matteo Berrettini saved two match points and needed four match points of his own to come through Francisco Comesaña 7-6(3), 5-7, 6-7(4), 6-4, 7-6(13) in 5h 13min on Court Simonne-Mathieu. Epic.
“How many times do I have to say it?”: at Roland-Garros, the elephant in the room is the open draw
The Roland-Garros men's draw is wide open following the exits of Novak Djokovic and Jannik Sinner, setting the stage for a new Grand Slam champion. Players like Alexander Zverev downplay this unique opportunity, but Casper Ruud offers a more candid perspective on the situation. We asked the five biggest names left.
Zverev, Ruud, Jódar – or someone else? Roland-Garros set to crown a first-time Grand Slam champion
May 30, 1995: The day Virginie Buisson and Noelle van Lottum played the longest women’s match in Roland-Garros history
“Barely standing on my legs”: Novak Djokovic, 39, confirmed that physicality was a key factor of this early exit at Roland-Garros
Birth of a giant: 19-year-old Fonseca recovers from two sets down to end Djokovic’s Roland-Garros, the Serb’s earliest exit in 17 years
Jodar comes back from two sets to one down to reach his first Grand Slam round of 16
May 29, 1990: The day Edberg and Becker were sent packing from Roland-Garros
17-year old Kouamé saves the match from two points down to reach the third round, the youngest man in a major’s last 32 since Nadal in 2003
Breaking: Sinner out of Roland-Garros, beaten in the second round by Juan Manuel Cerúndolo after apparent heat collapse
Osaka reaches the Roland-Garros third round for the first time in seven years, Jovic next
Roland-Garros under a heat dome: the draw is bending, and we have seen nothing yet
May 28, 1980: The day Connors came back from two sets to love down against a Frenchman and won over the Paris crowd
Djokovic finds his clay legs match by match, dropping a set but reaching the third round at the expense of Royer
Menšík collapses on court after surviving Navone in a fifth-set tie-break that ran to 13-11, the 26th seed unable to stand at the moment of victory
May 27, 2016: The day Rafael Nadal stunned the tennis world by pulling out of Roland-Garros
Auger-Aliassime survives 1-4 down in the fifth against Altmaier, the last first-round match of Roland-Garros and the first to be decided in a fifth-set tie-break