Roland Garros News

Carlos Alcaraz defeated Novak Djokovic 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (4) in the Wimbledon men’s final Sunday to collect his fourth Grand Slam title at age 21. It was a rematch of last year’s championship match on the grass of the All England Club, which Alcaraz won in five sets. This one — played in front of a Centre Court crowd that included Kate, the Princess of Wales, in a rare public appearance since announcing she has cancer — was much easier for Alcaraz, at least until he stumbled while holding three match points as he served for the victory at 5-4 in the third set.

Uzbekistan's beloved head boxing coach was revived from apparent cardiac arrest by two members of Britain's training staff after celebrating his team's first gold medal of the Paris Olympics, his fighters confirmed. The Uzbek team went on to win five golds — more than any Olympic team in the last 20 years — in tribute to Tulkin Kilichev, who is recovering in a Paris hospital. "(Kilichev) is more than a coach or a father, in fact," Bakhodir Jalolov said after winning his second super heavyweight gold medal. «He has raised us. He educated us. He has transmitted the sports spirit to us. He has been with me in my heart, and tomorrow we will be going to visit him in the hospital.» Kilichev fell ill backstage after flyweight Hasanboy Dusmatov won Uzbekistan's first gold medal Thursday. According to GB Boxing, team doctor Harj Singh and physical therapist Robbie Lillis found Kilichev in life-threatening distress. They performed CPR on the coach, and Lillis also used a defibrillator, the team said.

boxer Imane Khelif has won a gold medal Friday at the Paris Olympics, emerging a champion from a tumultuous run at the Games where she endured intense scrutiny in the ring and online abuse from around the world over misconceptions about her womanhood. Khelif beat Yang Liu of China 5:0 in the final of the women's welterweight division, wrapping up the best series of fights of her boxing career with a victory at Roland Garros, where crowds chanted her name, waved Algerian flags and roared every time she landed a punch. After her unanimous win, Khelif jumped into her coaches' arms, one of them putting her on his shoulders and carrying her in a victory lap as she pumped her fists and grabbed an Algerian flag from the crowd.

Barbora Krejcikova won Wimbledon for her second Grand Slam title with a 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 victory over Jasmine Paolini in the final on Saturday. Krejcikova is a 28-year-old from the Czech Republic who adds this trophy to her championship at the French Open in 2021. She was unseeded in Paris back then and was only the 31st of 32 seeds at the All England Club after illness and a back injury this season limited her to a 7-9 record entering this tournament.

Rafael Nadal is going to skip Wimbledon, as expected, and instead prepare for the Paris Olympics by entering a clay-court tournament in Bastad, Sweden, he hasn't been to in 19 years. The 22-time Grand Slam champion, who turned 38 on June 3, said Thursday he wants to just remain on clay, rather than switching over to grass for the All England Club, then needing to go back to clay for the Summer Games. «We believe that the best for my body is not to change surface,» Nadal said in a statement.

tennis players, one of whom has been seeded as No.3, while his rival is seeded No.4. Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev are these players respectively, who will be setting the clay court ablaze with their fiery performance.

knee injury forced him out of the French Open on Tuesday. World No. 1 and 24-time Grand Slam winner Djokovic withdrew ahead of his quarter-final against Casper Ruud after a scan revealed a “medial meniscus tear” in his right knee.

French Open marathon came the sprint. Defending champion Iga Swiatek swept into the quarterfinals at Roland Garros in just 40 minutes after a crushing 6-0, 6-0 win against Anastasia Potapova.

Rafael Nadal says he might not be done. He’s left the door open to a French Open return, to the point he asked Roland Garros officials to cancel plans for an elaborate on-court farewell. One imagines a scrambled call to a Saint-Germain-des-Prés pâtissier, scuttling a 14-foot macaron pyramid: “Désolé, il ne veut pas de gâteau.

Paris: Carlos Alcaraz made a bold statement to his opponents on Sunday at Roland Garros, easily defeating JJ Wolf in his opening match of the French Open 2024. In exactly one hour and fifty-one minutes, Alcaraz wrapped up a 6-1, 6-2, 6-1 victory against Wolf on Court Philippe-Chatrier. A player who had been out of action for more than three weeks due to a right forearm injury would find confidence restored after the Spaniard's easy victory at the clay-court major.

Rafael Nadal returned from injury at the Barcelona Open, marking his first ATP Tour appearance since January due to a hip issue. The 22-time Grand Slam winner missed several tournaments in 2023 due to injuries.

Australian Open warm-up event in Brisbane next month. Eleven months have passed since the Spaniard's defeat at Melbourne Park in the second round by American MacKenzie McDonald. Due to his hip ailment, he required surgery twice and, while out of action, dropped to 664th place in the world rankings.

A post shared by Rafa Nadal (@rafaelnadal) Nadal has not played since his defeat in the second round of the Australian Open last January as he struggled with a hip injury during the tournament he won in 2009 and 2022. "I think I don't deserve to end like this," said Nadal, 37, of his Melbourne exit. The Spaniard has undergone surgery twice since and having slumped to 663rd in the world declared in September that the 2024 season would probably be his last.

Novak Djokovic likes nothing better than munching on Wimbledon's Centre Court turf on men's final day and after setting up what he billed as the «ultimate showdown» with Carlos Alcaraz, he now wants to gobble up a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title. «He's very motivated. He's young.

Wimbledon curfew on Thursday night, Andy Murray will continue his second-round match against Stefanos Tsitsipas on Friday. The clash between the two players began on Centre Court in the afternoon, with Tsitsipas, the fifth-seed Greek, having previously defeated Dominic Thiem in the first round. In his Tuesday match against Ryan Peniston, Murray continued his remarkable record of never losing in the Wimbledon first round. He emerged victorious with a 6-3, 6-0, 6-1 win over his fellow Brit, a match that was witnessed by Roger Federer. Murray expressed his delight at having both royalty and tennis royalty in attendance, stating, «It was amazing to have some royalty here but also some tennis royalty as well. It’s amazing to have Roger here supporting this event. I started off the match quite nervous. Once I got the break in the first set, I think I played some good stuff. It’s been a long time since I’ve felt physically this good coming into Wimbledon. I’m hoping I’m fit and ready for a good run.»

Djokovic says he is still «hungry» for Grand Slam glory as Wimbledon rivals queue up to hail him as the «greatest» and his achievements as «phenomenal». Having wrapped up a men's record 23rd Grand Slam title at the French Open, Djokovic now targets an eighth Wimbledon title to equal Roger Federer's mark. The 36-year-old Serb has won the title at the All England Club on the last four occasions.

Rafael Nadal pulled away to beat Casper Ruud 6-3, 6-3, 6-0 in the French Open final on Sunday for his 14th championship at Roland Garros and 22nd Grand Slam title overall, adding to two records he already owned.