Diede de Groot was in scintillating form as she won a maiden French Open title at Roland Garros and completed

An honour to be the first ever Roland Garros Quad Wheelchair Champion ...

Britain's Gordon Reid stunned world number one Shingo Kunieda to reach the men's wheelchair tennis final at the French Open.

Japan's Kunieda, the reigning champion at Roland Garros, had been on course to reach another final when

Spain's Rafael Nadal crushed long-time rival Roger Federer 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 to reach his 12th French Open final.

champion was chasing not only a 12th final, but also a 12th title.Switzerland's Federer returned to Roland

Garros after four years but was no match for the 'King of Clay'.Nadal got off to the perfect start as

organizers regret to announce that, due to poor weather conditions, no more matches will be played today at Roland-Garros.More

: https://t.co/aTjLgxDJFT#RG19 pic.twitter.com/lfieOjOlaB— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) June 7, 2019Nadal

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81 per cent of his first serves as he defeated great rival Federer in straight sets ©Getty ImagesThe Roland

Garros covers were pulled out again on Friday as rain halted Serbian Novak Djokovic and Austrian Dominic

Gustavo Fernandez are on course for a French Open final repeat as they won their first-round matches at Roland

Garros.

, before Fernandez fought back to win 4-6, 6-1, 6-1.Briton Alfie Hewett won the clay court title at Roland

Garros in 2017 and got the better of Kunieda at the US Open in September 2018.Today, he defeated Stephane

semi-finals.Diede de Groot made light work of South Africa's Kgothatso Montjane, who was making her Roland

Garros debut.Unfortunately for the South Africa, top seed de Groot was in great form and eased to a

Simona Halep's title defence was left in tatters as she bowed out of the French Open to unseeded 17-year-old Amanda Anisimova in their rain-delayed quarter-final.

American Anisimova is only contesting the main draw at Roland Garros for the second time and her fairytale

the women's draw is wide open with all four remaining players making their first appearances in the Roland

Garros semi-finals.Serbia's Novak Djokovic shakes hands with the umpire after his men's singles quarter-final

 In the semi-finals he will take on fourth seed Dominic Thiem, a runner-up at Roland Garros 12 months

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looks disgruntled as a line call goes against her at the French Open ©Getty ImagesBetter weather graced Roland

Garros after Wednesday's schedule was wiped out by torrential rain ©Getty ImagesAustria's Dominic Thiem

Gabriela Sabatini has been presented with the International Tennis Federation's (ITF) highest accolade, the Philippe Chatrier Award, for her outstanding contribution to tennis both on and off the court.

 "Being here at Roland Garros is very special to me.

just happy knowing that I was going to play tennis and I ended up at this junior tournament, winning Roland

Garros and becoming the number one in the world in juniors.

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Romanian Simon Halep's French Open title defence was put on hold by thunderstorms at Roland Garros ©Getty

suspended play ©Getty ImagesFans had to settle for replays on the big screens as the rain poured on Roland

Garros ©Getty ImagesSpectators with tickets for today will be able to access the Roland Garros grounds

until tomorrow for their French Open quarter-final matches after thunderstorms caused a washout at Roland

Garros for the first time since 2016.

promptly to move the women's semi-finals – scheduled for tomorrow – to Friday.Washouts are a rarity at Roland

Garros, with today's torrential downpours causing only the third full day without play at the tournament

#RG19 pic.twitter.com/aeCQzGRQfu— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) June 5, 2019Thunderstorms delayed play

A good month for women’s sport just got a little better.

night (June 7), when host nation France take on South Korea at Parc des Princes, just up the road from Roland

Garros, where the French Open tennis championships will conclude on Sunday (June 9).The event is well-established

all four Grand Slam titles at the same time as the French Open wheelchair tennis tournament begins at Roland

Garros.

Garros champions Sabine Ellerbrock of Germany and the Netherlands' Marjolein Buis are outsiders for

the title.Japan's Shingo Kunieda will begin his title defence at Roland Garros tomorrow ©Takeo TanumaReigning

Open men's wheelchair champion and world number one Shingo Kunieda will begin his title defence at Roland

Garros on Thursday.Japanese Kunieda is favourite to claim the honours on Saturday (June 8) but will

Garros on Friday and will have a new format.In a departure from the standard round robin quad singles

through to the French Open semi-finals after an engaging four set battle with Stanislas Wawrinka at Roland-Garros

6-1, 6-3 victory over Japanese number seven seed Kei Nishikori.The number two seed is into his 12th Roland

Garros semi-finals – on the 11 previous occasions he has reached the final four, he has gone on to become

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Novak Djokovic has reached the quarter finals of Roland Garros for the 10th consecutive year ©Getty ImagesSimona

10th consecutive French Open quarter-final after a routine win over Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff at Roland-Garros