Top seed and defending champion Roger Federer began his campaign for a 17th Grand Slam title with a comfortable 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 win over Australia’s Peter Luczak in the French Open first round.
Top seed and defending champion Roger Federer began his campaign for a 17th Grand Slam title with a comfortable 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 win over Australia’s Peter Luczak in the French Open first round.
PARIS - China’s Li Na used her experience to fend off teenage French wildcard Kristina Mladenovic and reach the second round of the French Open on Monday, winning 7-5 6-3 on a baking hot Suzanne Lenglen court.
Caroline Wozniacki, leading the chasing pack in pursuit of the Williams sisters, shrugged off ankle injury concerns to sweep into the French Open second round on Monday.
France’s Aravane Rezai followed up her Madrid title with a crushing 6-1 6-1 demolition of Canadian qualifier Heidi El Tabakh in the first round of the French Open on Sunday.
S Africa’s Chanelle Scheepers reached the second round of a Grand Slam for the first time on Sunday when she defeated France’s Mathilde Johansson 6-2, 6-4 at the French Open.
PARIS - Croatia’s Marin Cilic was given a tougher workout than he expected before beating Brazil’s Ricardo Mello 6-1 3-6 6-3 6-1 in the French Open first round on Sunday.
Defending champion Svetlana Kuznetsova reeled off 11 of the last 12 games to move into the French Open second round with a 6-3, 6-1 win against Romania’s Sorana Cirstea on Sunday.
PARIS - In any other era, David Ferrer and Fernando Verdasco would be leading a dashing Spanish assault on the tennis majors but unfortunately for them players such as Rafa Nadal come only once in a generation.
PARIS - Roland Garros has never been the happiest of hunting grounds for Venus Williams but the world number two will get an early glimpse of the conditions in Paris when she headlines the opening day of the French Open on Sunday.
STRASBOURG, France - Russian top seed Maria Sharapova beat Germany’s Kristina Barrois 7-5, 6-1 in the final of the WTA Strasbourg claycourt tournament here on Saturday to secure her second title of 2010.