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  • Nadal plays cleanly, wins 1st French Open match

    PARIS (AP) -- Rafael Nadal started his bid for a record seventh French Open championship with a mostly mistake-free 6-2, 6-2, 6-1 victory over 111th-ranked Simone Bolelli of Italy....

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  • Sharapova begins French Open with 6-0, 6-0 victory

    PARIS (AP) -- Maria Sharapova got off to a quick start at the French Open, winning her first-round match 6-0, 6-0 in 48 minutes....

  • Report: US tennis player Fish has heart procedure

    American tennis player Mardy Fish tells USA Today he recently had a medical procedure to correct a heart problem....

  • Baker of US wins 1st French Open main-draw match

    PARIS (AP) -- Probably would have been hard to imagine back when Brian Baker reached the 2003 junior final at the French Open that it would take him nearly a decade to make it to the men's tournament....

  • USC's Johnson wins 2nd straight NCAA singles title

    ATHENS, Ga. (AP) -- Steve Johnson is ready for a break from tennis. His body could sure use the rest....

  • Gibbs beats Burdette in all-Stanford NCAA final

    ATHENS, Ga. (AP) -- Stanford's Nicole Gibbs rallied to beat teammate Mallory Burdette 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3 and win the NCAA singles championship Monday....

  • American women 10 for 10 at French Open so far

    PARIS (AP) -- American women are 10 for 10 so far at the French Open, giving the country its most representatives in the Grand Slam tournament's second round since 11 made it in 2003....

  • USC's Johnson wins 2nd straight NCAA singles title

    ATHENS, Ga. (AP) -- Steve Johnson of Southern Cal won his second straight NCAA singles title with a 6-4, 6-4 victory Monday over Kentucky's Eric Quigley....

  • Bogomolov retires on match point in 5th set

    PARIS (AP) -- After more than four hours on court at the French Open, Alex Bogomolov Jr. was one point from losing when he decided he'd had enough....

  • No. 1 Djokovic reaches 2nd round at French Open

    PARIS (AP) -- Top-ranked Novak Djokovic advanced to the second round of the French Open by beating Potito Starace of Italy 7-6 (3), 6-3, 6-1 on Monday....

  • Federer ties Connors' Grand Slam match win record

    PARIS (AP) -- Roger Federer tied Jimmy Connors' Open era record of 233 Grand Slam match wins by beating Tobias Kamke of Germany 6-2, 7-5, 6-3 in the first round of the French Open on Monday....

  • US teen Lauren Davis beats French Open's 30th seed

    PARIS (AP) -- Qualifier Lauren Davis, an 18-year-old from Boca Raton, Fla., knocked off 30th-seeded Mona Barthel of Germany 6-1, 6-1 in the first round of the French Open on Monday....

  • Feliciano Lopez retires down 5-0 at French Open

    PARIS (AP) -- Feliciano Lopez of Spain quit because of a side muscle injury Monday after losing the first five games of his first-round French Open match against Florent Serra of France....

  • Vera Zvonareva withdraws from French Open

    PARIS (AP) -- Two-time Grand Slam finalist Vera Zvonareva of Russia withdrew from the French Open shortly before her first-round match Monday, citing an injured right shoulder....

  • Roddick ousted in first round of French

    It's easy to understand why Andy Roddick has never enjoyed playing on red clay.

  • Forced off tour by injuries, Baker back at Slam

    PARIS (AP) -- Brian Baker gets asked quite a bit these days to run down the long list of operations his body needed during his 6 1/2 years away from the ATP tour....

  • Venus advances to 2nd round at French Open

    PARIS (AP) -- Venus Williams bounced back from a poor start at the French Open on Sunday, beating 19-year-old Paula Ormaechea 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 in her first Grand Slam match since revealing she has been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease....

  • No. 5 Tsonga reaches 2nd round at French Open

    PARIS (AP) -- Fifth-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga overcame a slow start Sunday to beat Andrey Kuznetsov of Russia 1-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 and reach the second round of the French Open....

  • Roddick loses to Mahut in French Open's 1st round

    PARIS (AP) -- Andy Roddick exited in the opening round at a Grand Slam tournament for the first time since 2007, losing to 88th-ranked Nicolas Mahut 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 Sunday at the French Open....

  • 2008 French Open champion Ivanovic advances

    PARIS (AP) -- Former champion Ana Ivanovic reached the second round of the French Open by beating Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino of Spain 6-1, 6-1 Sunday....

  • Del Potro reaches 2nd round at French Open

    PARIS (AP) -- Juan Martin del Potro advanced to the second round of the French Open despite discomfort in his left knee, beating Albert Montanes 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-1 Sunday....

  • Djokovic riding high heading into Paris

    As daylight disappeared and wind whipped loose dirt around the court, Novak Djokovic watched one last ace fly off Roger Federer's racket and end their thrill-a-minute semifinal at the 2011 French Open.

  • Tennis Roundup: Serbia wins Team Cup title

    Serbia overcame the Czech Republic in the final of the World Team Cup on Saturday to capture the title for the second time.

  • Radwanska beats Simona Halep to win Belgian Open

    BRUSSELS (AP) -- Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland beat Simona Halep of Romania 7-5, 6-0 to win the Belgian Open....

  • Serbia leads Czechs 1-0 in Team World Cup

    DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) -- Janko Tipsarevic beat Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic to give Serbia a 1-0 lead in the final of the Team World Cup on Saturday....

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