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COB signs partnership agreement with municipality of Saint-Ouen

  • PASO

The Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) has signed a partnership agreement with the municipality of Saint-Ouen after meeting with the Paris 2024 Organising Committee, where they discussed plans for the next Olympic Games.

names in our sport are still revered around here, like Guga (Kuerten), who was three-time champion of Roland

Garros,” Wilson said."


World tennis number two Kontaveit splits with Russian coach following Ukraine invasion

  • Tennis

Russian coach Dmitry Tursunov has announced that he and women's world ranked number two tennis player Anett Kontaveit have parted ways only a few weeks after the Estonian admitted that both were struggling to cope with the fallout of the invasion of Ukraine. 

is difficult to deal with it mentally, even to travel," the 26-year-old said prior to competing at Roland-Garros


Top seeds triumph in wheelchair tennis finals as French Open concludes

  • Wheelchair Tennis

The top seeds all triumphed in the three wheelchair tennis finals held on the last day of the French Open, with Dutch players Diede de Groot and Niels Vink both adding to their medal haul at this year's tournament.

French Open for the fifth consecutive year.De Groot had won her 14th women's singles Grand Slam at Roland

Garros yesterday, beating Kamiji in the final.Tokyo 2020 silver medallists Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid


Nadal surges to 14th French Open title becoming oldest men's singles Roland Garros champion

  • Tennis

Rafael Nadal captured his 14th Roland Garros title and a record-extending 22nd Grand Slam trophy as he

won the Australian Open and French Open trophies in the same season after taking his career record at Roland

Garros to 112 wins and three losses since his debut in 2005.Nadal’s achievement is even more impressive

finals, conquering Casper Ruud 6-3, 6-3, 6-0 for a 14th title#RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/GctcC17Ah8— Roland-Garros


Geoff Berkeley: Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony plans hard to imagine after security chaos

  • Inside the Blogs

Can you imagine 600,000 spectators packed along the River Seine in Paris to witness what is expected to be the most unique Olympic Opening Ceremony in the Games’ history?

situation as both players were taken off the court while security officials forcibly removed her.The Roland

Garros organisers have clearly failed to learn from past experiences as protestors invaded the court


Stunning Świątek steals the show in Paris

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Gustavo Fernández ©Getty ImagesJapan's three-time Paralympic singles champion Shingo Kunieda won at Roland

Garros for the first time since 2018 ©Getty ImagesThe quad singles and the women's doubles finals will


De Groot and Kunieda add another wheelchair singles Grand Slam titles at French Open

  • Wheelchair Tennis

Diede de Groot and Shingo Kunieda both added to their wheelchair tennis Grand Slam trophy haul at the French Open, although the quad singles and men's and women's doubles finals are set to run into tomorrow after play was interrupted by rain.

two hours and 41 minutes, with Japan's three-time Paralympic singles champion Kunieda triumphing at Roland

Garros for the first time since 2018.Japan's Shingo Kunieda won his 27th career men's singles Grand


Świątek powers past Gauff to win second French Open title

  • Tennis

Iga Świątek secured her second Grand Slam title today in Paris with a commanding victory over the United States' Coco Gauff in the French Open women's singles final on the Court Philippe-Chatrier.

Williams' 21st century record of 35 consecutive victories set in 2000.Following her 2020 triumph at Roland

Garros, Świątek becomes only the tenth woman to win multiple French Open singles titles in the Open


Nadal faces Ruud challenge in quest for 14th French Open crown

  • Tennis

Rafael Nadal reached the 14th French Open final of his career after an ankle injury forced Alexander Zverev to retire.

Of course for me, as everyone knows, to be in the final of Roland Garros for another time is a dream,

@CasperRuud98 #RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/guxIjZRwJ4— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) June 3, 2022In



Świątek and Gauff set up French Open final with straight-sets victories in Paris

  • Tennis

United States swept through the French Open women's singles semi-finals with straight-sets victories at Roland

Garros to set up a deciding clash on Saturday (June 4).

after she dispatched number 20 seed Daria Kasatkina 6-2, 6-1 in just 64 minutes to reach her second Roland

Garros final.Świątek is now tied for the second-longest winning run of the century with American Serena

battles past Martina Trevisan 6-3, 6-1 to book a meeting with Iga Swiatek. pic.twitter.com/85F4HNtLRB— Roland-Garros

performance from Świątek who tallied 22 winners to 13 unforced errors, taking her total of winners at Roland

Garros this year to 140.She also landed 70% of her first serves, and won 79% of those points.Stopping