French Open officials have announced that they are planning to build a retractable roof over center court at Roland Garros which will allow for evening matches. The $440 million project, also include a new 4,850-seat show court and redesigned outer courts. The city of Paris and French Tennis Federation are appealing an April 1 decision by…
World number three-ranked Roger Federer hopped on the Web site Reddit at 1:30 p.m. EST on Friday, May 24 to answer questions posed by fans of Reddit’s tennis community. With questions ranging from the basic, “What Grand Slam was the most important or memorable?” to the absurd “How do you style your hair?," Federer answered as many…
Number one seeded Serena Williams begins her bid for a second French Open championship and 16th Grand Slam title overall by facing 83rd-ranked Anna Tatishvili in the first round of the event at Roland Garros. Serena lost her opening match to 111th-ranked Virginie Razzano at the 2012 French Open, Serena’s only first-round loss in 50 career…
World number one Novak Djokovic was drawn in the same half of the 2013 French Open draw as seven-time champion Rafael Nadal in Paris. Of the top three seeds, Djokovic appears to have the trickier draw. The top seed Djokovic, who is looking to become the eighth player to complete the Grand Slam of all four…
Where do top Spanish players train before the European spring clay court season that culminates with the French Open at Roland Garros? New York City public parks, of course! Fernando Verdasco stopped by the 96th Street public red clay courts in Riverside Park on April 1 for a two-hour work out. "He came by a…
Djokovic’s Search for Career Slam to End in Paris? World number one Novak Djokovic has won six Grand Slam titles; four in Australia, one at Wimbledon and one at the U.S. Open. At 25-years of age, the Grand Slam that has eluded the Serbian has been the French Open and 2013 might be his best…
Andy Murray withdrew from the French Open on Tuesday due to a chronic back injury and will now focus on preparing for the start of the grass-court season next month. The 2012 U.S. Open champion met with specialists this week after being forced to pull out of his second match against Marcel Granollers of Spain at…
Maria Sharapova’s popularity has skyrocketed as she surpassed 10 million fans on Facebook this past week. Sharapova currently has 10,006,973 fans, securing her spot as the top female athlete on Facebook. Sharapova was the most searched athlete on Bing in 2011 and she also gained 221,000 followers on Twitter after only four months of having a…
Tennis Channel will begin its first day of 2013 French Open coverage with nine consecutive hours of matches, followed by a another nine hours of interview-and-encore show French Open Tonight. This daily balance—long blocks of competition followed by an all-night review of the day’s play—will be the template for much of the network’s two-week telecast,…
Rafael Nadal captured his 24th ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title and seventh Internazionali BNL d’Italia championship in Rome on Sunday, defeating the second-seed Roger Federer 6-1, 6-3. "If you told me four or five months ago that after eight tournaments I would have won six titles from eight finals, I would say you are crazy," said…