Claycourt machine Rafa Nadal held off another challenge from great rival Novak Djokovic to claim a record extending ninth French Open title with a 3-6 7-5 6-2 6-4 victory on Sunday.
Andy Murray beat Rafael Nadal on clay for the first time Sunday, dominating the Madrid Open final to win 6-3, 6-2 against the four-time champion.
Petra Kvitova was crowned as the champion of the women's tournament in the Mutua Madrid Masters on Saturday.
Fourteen-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal described his performance as "awful" as he crashed out of the Barcelona Open 6-4, 7-6 (6) to Italian Fabio Fognini on Thursday.
Du Zhenjun has become the first Chinese in 35 years to create a work of art for the French Open, depicting a player on a poster serving a point.
Despite the just-claimed French Open doubles title, the future of Chinese tennis remains in jeopardy due to the lack of up-and-coming talent.
With red clay still staining her shoes and socks, Maria Sharapova is already getting ready for the toughest transition in tennis.
Top-seeded Peng Shuai of Chinese mainland and Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan won their second Grand Slam title together by defeating Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci of Italy 6-4, 6-1 in the final of the French Open women's doubles on Sunday.
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For a woman who admires 19th century philosophy, Andrea Petkovic says she did not need to think at all to reach her first Grand Slam semifinal on Wednesday.
For the third straight year, Maria Sharapova will play in the French Open final. The seventh-seeded Russian again lost the first set Thursday, but again managed to turn things around, beating Eugenie Bouchard of Canada 4-6, 7-5, 6-2.
The worlds of Latvian "wildman" Ernests Gulbis and Serb joker Novak Djokovic will collide at Roland Garros on Friday with a place in the French Open final at stake.
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