Latest story published: 2026-06-04 20:43 UTC
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Alexander Zverev won the French Open, beating Flavio Cobolli in five sets to claim his first Grand Slam title. The Roland Garros final ended years of near misses for the world No. 3, who had finished runner-up three times before. The result matters because it finally gives Zverev a major and leaves Cobolli with a first Grand Slam final run that ended in defeat.
Serena Williams' last professional match was a hard-fought loss to Ajla Tomljanovic at the 2022 US Open. That defeat is being revisited because Williams has now announced her return to tennis. It marks the latest reference point for a comeback that ends nearly four years away from the sport.
Elina Svitolina came from a set down to beat Belinda Bencic 4-6, 6-4, 6-0 and reach the next round. The win sets up an all-Ukrainian quarter-final against Marta Kostyuk, the No. 15 seed. It gives Ukraine a guaranteed player in the last eight of the WTA event.
Tamara Korpatsch refused the post-match handshake with Wang Xinyu after a heated argument over a ball-mark dispute. The clash came after Korpatsch’s victory and turned an ordinary finish into a tense WTA match ending. It leaves the match remembered as much for the dispute as for the result.
Tyra Grant won the Kosice tournament in dominant fashion and is set to break into the top 200. The result is a clear ranking breakthrough for the young WTA player and marks a meaningful step up in her season. It gives her stronger standing for entry into bigger events going forward.
The French Open first round produced a major seed cull, with 15 seeded players going out early, including four top-10 names. That leaves the men’s and women’s draws reshaped immediately at Roland Garros, with several sections now open for unseeded players and lower-ranked survivors. The headline damage came on the opening days, when seeded players were knocked out before they could settle into the tournament.
Iga Swiatek defeated Emerson Jones 6-1, 6-2 in the French Open first round. A blister was her only issue in a routine win for the four-time champion.
Maja Chwalinska upset Zheng Qinwen 6-4, 6-0 in the Roland Garros opening round. It was Zheng’s first first-round exit at the French Open and her loss of the final eight games underlined how quickly the match turned. The defeat threatens to push the Chinese player, currently outside the top tier at No. 56, out of the Top 100.
Jil Teichmann beat Liudmila Samsonova in straight sets at Roland-Garros, 6-4, 6-4. The result sent the second women's seed out of the tournament. Teichmann now moves on to face Magdalena Frech in the next round.
Gael Monfils ended his Roland Garros career with a five-set loss to Hugo Gaston in the first round, but the night was framed as a tribute to one of the tour's great entertainers. The near-capacity crowd on Court Philippe-Chatrier stayed with him to the final point, underlining his status as a beloved French star. The result closes out Monfils' run at his home major and leaves his legacy as a major part of the tournament's modern identity.
Hailey Baptiste shocked 2021 Roland-Garros champion Barbora Krejčíková in a dramatic Paris comeback. The 26th seed saved two consecutive match points in the second-set tiebreak after falling 2-0 down in that set. The win sends Baptiste through at Roland-Garros and removes a former champion from the draw.
Belinda Bencic, Caty McNally and Xinyu Wang all advanced in the Roland-Garros draw. Bencic beat Julia Kraus for her first Roland-Garros win since 2022, McNally rallied from 3-6, 0-3 to beat Ajla Tomljanovic, and Wang edged Lilli Tagger. Their wins move them into the next round in the French Open bracket.
Emma Navarro won the Strasbourg Open by beating top seed Victoria Mboko, ending a title drought that had lasted more than a year. The WTA 500 clay-court win gives Navarro her first title in 15 months and her first on clay. It also takes her back into the WTA Top 30 and extends her perfect record in tour finals to 3-0. The result underlines her late spring form just before the bigger clay-season tests.
Thursday’s ATP results left five seeds still alive in Geneva and set up a quarterfinal featuring childhood friends from Southern California. The day’s play also fed into the wider ATP and WTA tour schedule, with the Geneva draw moving into its late stages. For fans, the practical takeaway is that the seed count is still high heading into the last eight.
Emma Raducanu lost 6-4, 7-6 (4) to France’s Diane Parry in the first round at Strasbourg on her first match back after more than two months away. The defeat came in her return from illness and leaves her still searching for a first win after the layoff. It also sets back her effort to rebuild rhythm before the clay-season run continues.
Serena Williams beat Justine Henin in Rome on May 19, 2002, to win the Italian Open. It was Williams's first career title on clay and a major milestone in her development on the surface. The result marked an early sign that she could translate her power game to clay as well as hard courts.
Roland Garros doubles day 3 delivered the first completed results across the men’s and women’s draws. The early rounds in Paris are now underway in doubles, with teams beginning their clay-court campaigns at the season’s second Grand Slam. These results start shaping the bracket for the rest of the tournament and the path toward the later doubles rounds.
Alex Eala was beaten by Oleksandra Oliynykova in the round of 32 at the Strasbourg Open after taking the first set. The loss ended Eala's run early in Strasbourg. It also shut down a chance to build momentum at a WTA event in the build-up to Roland Garros.
Texas A&M won the NCAA women’s tennis title by beating Auburn 4-1 in Athens, Georgia. Daria Smetannikov delivered the decisive No. 6 singles win in three sets to clinch the Aggies’ second national championship. The title confirms Texas A&M as a repeat NCAA champion at the team level.
Virginia beat Texas 4-3 to win the 2026 NCAA Championship. The tight final delivered the team title in college tennis. It is a narrow finish that gives Virginia the championship over Texas.
Friday’s Rome play produced a strong Italian showing, with two Italian men reaching the singles semifinals. That is significant on home soil at the Foro Italico and keeps the host nation in the title hunt deep into the tournament. The result also sets up a rare all-Italian presence at the business end of the event.
Jannik Sinner beat Casper Ruud 6-4, 6-4 to win the Italian Open in Rome and complete the full set of nine ATP Masters 1000 titles. He became the first Italian man to win his home event in 50 years and only the second man after Novak Djokovic to sweep all nine Masters events. The result strengthens Sinner’s status heading into Roland Garros and adds another major benchmark to his season. It also reinforces the sense that he arrives in Paris as the form player on the ATP Tour.
Coco Gauff beat Sorana Cirstea to reach the Italian Open final. The result puts Gauff one step from the title in Rome and confirms her form on the WTA stage. It also ends Cirstea’s run and sets up Gauff for a chance to close out the event.
Rome staged women’s singles semifinals and men’s singles quarterfinals on Thursday, May 14, 2026. The schedule also included men’s and women’s doubles action in the tournament. The update marks the day’s end-of-play snapshot rather than a single match result.
Elina Svitolina rallied past Elena Rybakina in Rome to reach the semifinals. It is Svitolina’s first Rome semifinal since she won the title in 2018, which puts her back into contention at a tournament where she has already gone all the way before. The result removes Rybakina from the draw and advances Svitolina into the final four.
Iga Swiatek beat Jessica Pegula in straight sets to reach the Italian Open semifinals. The three-time champion needed just 67 minutes to sweep aside the No. 5 seed 6-1, 6-2. The result keeps Swiatek on course at one of her strongest events and sends Pegula out of the draw in clear fashion.
Coco Gauff and Caty McNally are back together in doubles at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia and have reached the Rome quarterfinals. It is their first reunion since April 2023, when they helped the United States beat Austria in a Billie Jean King Cup Qualifier. The result restores a familiar American pairing to the late stages of a major clay-court event.
Bobby Riggs beat Margaret Court in the May 13, 1973 exhibition known as the Mother's Day Massacre. Court was world No. 2 at the time, and the loss fed directly into the buildup for the later Battle of the Sexes. The result became one of the sport's most famous reference points in tennis history.
Iga Swiatek beat Jessica Pegula in Rome to reach her first semifinal of the 2026 season. The world No. 3 looked sharp at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia, where she is a three-time champion, and the win came with Roland Garros approaching. The result keeps Swiatek in strong form for Paris. Pegula had arrived in the tournament after a 6-0, 6-0 win over Rebeka Masarova, the first double bagel of her career.
Jannik Sinner beat Andrea Pellegrino in straight sets to reach the Italian Open quarter-finals. The win matched Novak Djokovic's record of 31 consecutive Masters 1000 victories. Coco Gauff also advanced in Rome after rallying past Mirra Andreeva to reach the semi-finals.