PARIS — Iga Swiatek is streaking. With another dominant performance Thursday at Roland Garros, she has won 30 consecutive matches. How does this stack up against the longest streaks this century? Here’s a look: Photo by Getty Images/Clive Brunskill/ALLSPORT Venus Williams: 35 consecutive matches, 2000 During Venus Williams’ remarkable 2000 season, she ran off 35 … Read more
Chinese teenager Zheng Qinwen grabbed the biggest win of her career by ranking in the second round of Roland Garros on Thursday, coming back from a set and a break down to stun 2018 champion Simona Halep 2-6, 6-2, 6-1. Zheng, 19, took just under 2 hours to pull off the comeback upset and reach … Read more
No.227-ranked wildcard Leolia Jeanjean thrilled her home crowd with a 6-2, 6-2 upset of No.8 seed Karolina Pliskova in 75 minutes to move into the Roland Garros third round. Jeanjean, 26, had neither contested a tour-level main draw nor played a Top 50 player before this week. But she took out No.45-ranked Nuria Parrizas Diaz … Read more
No.227-ranked wildcard Leolia Jeanjean thrilled her home crowd with a 6-2, 6-2 upset of No.8 seed Karolina Pliskova in 75 minutes to move into the Roland Garros third round. Jeanjean, 26, had neither contested a tour-level main draw nor played a Top 50 player before this week. But she took out No.45-ranked Nuria Parrizas Diaz … Read more
Karolina Muchova’s comeback is gaining steam at the French Open. The former Top 20 Czech knocked out 2021 semifinalist and No.4 seed Maria Sakkari of Greece in Wednesday’s second round, 7-6(5), 7-6(4). Sakkari is the fifth Top 10 seed to be sent home from Paris in the tournament’s first three days. Former World No.19 Muchova … Read more
Karolina Muchova’s comeback is gaining steam at the French Open. The former Top 20 Czech knocked out 2021 semifinalist and No.4 seed Maria Sakkari of Greece in Wednesday’s second round, 7-6(5), 7-6(4). Sakkari is the fifth Top 10 seed to be sent home from Paris in the tournament’s first three days. Former World No.19 Muchova … Read more
When 17-year-old qualifier Linda Noskova took the first set from No.12 seed Emma Raducanu in their first-round match, statisticians were sent scurrying to the record book. The last time a qualifier upset a player seeded that high in a major? You have to go all the way back to, well, eight months ago, when Raducanu … Read more
Twelve months ago, Paula Badosa just made the cut to be seeded at the French Open and made it all the way to the quarterfinals. Seeded No.3 this year, she’s a title favorite, and she played like it to beat France’s Fiona Ferro in Tuesday’s first round. Badosa needed just 54 minutes to dispatch Ferro … Read more
No.8 seed Karolina Pliskova had to come from a set down to beat surging wildcard Tessah Andrianjafitrimo 2-6, 6-3, 6-1 in 2 hours and 3 minutes to reach the second round of Roland Garros. Advancing more straightforwardly were former champion Jelena Ostapenko, who defeated Lucia Bronzetti 6-1, 6-4 in 67 minutes; and Australian Open finalist … Read more
In the midst of the worst year of her life in professional tennis, after falling outside the Top 10 for the first time in more than seven years, Simona Halep went through some drastic changes. She got married, turned 30 and, earlier this year, started working with Patrick Mouratoglou, Serena Williams’ former coach. “I felt … Read more