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Quad wheelchair tennis to make French Open debut this year

  • Wheelchair Tennis

Quad singles and doubles wheelchair tennis action will feature at the French Open for the first time in 2019, it has been announced.

will form part of the UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour and will offer wheelchair tennis ranking points.At Roland

Garros the world’s top four players will be invited to take part.

“We are delighted to introduce a quad wheelchair tennis event at Roland Garros from 2019 and look forward


Paris 2024 issues rallying cry to mark 2,024 days until Olympic and Paralympic Games

  • Paris 2024

Paris 2024 organisers have targeted Games that "makes us proud" with 2,024 days to go until the Olympic Opening Ceremony.

official Olympics account, the French National Olympic and Sports Committee and the French Open, whose Roland

Garros venue will host tennis at the showpiece event in five years’ time.For its part, Paris 2024 tweeted


Peifer tops men's wheelchair tennis doubles rankings for first time

  • Wheelchair Tennis

Nicolas Peifer of France has become the number one men's wheelchair tennis doubles player for the first time in his career after the year-end rankings were updated. 

rankings seven times in the last nine years.Significant victories included the Australian Open and Roland

Garros with Houdet, and the Austrian Open with Australia's Nico Langmann.

champion this year, as well as winning seven doubles titles with three different partners, including at Roland

Garros, Wimbledon and the US Open.



Tokyo 2020 set to be pilot project for new climate action initiative launched with support of IOC

  • Tokyo 2020

The International Olympic Committee has taken up a leadership role within the "Sports for Climate Action Initiative", a new programme established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Organising Committees for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, World Sailing, the World Surf League, Roland

Garros and Forest Green Rovers – a United Kingdom-based, professional football club dedicated to “greening


Houdet, Kamiji and Wagner back to defend US Open Wheelchair Tennis titles

  • Wheelchair Tennis

Stephane Houdet, Yui Kamiji and David Wagner will all defend their respective titles at the 11th edition of the US Open wheelchair tennis tournament starting tomorrow in New York.

crown.Japan's defending US Open champion and world number two, Yui Kamiji, will look to add to her Roland

Garros title this year with victory at Flushing Meadows.Aniek van Koot will fight for her first US Open


ITF members set to vote on Davis Cup reforms at key meeting in Orlando

  • Tennis

Controversial reforms to the Davis Cup will be voted on at a key International Tennis Federation (ITF) meeting in Orlando tomorrow as President David Haggerty continued to lead calls for the sweeping changes to be passed.

travelled extensively to meet with regional and national associations, and hosted town hall events at Roland

Garros and Wimbledon to provide detail and hear feedback, much of which has been incorporated into the


Fernandez knocks out top seed Kunieda in Wimbledon men's wheelchair quarter-final

  • Wheelchair Tennis

Top seed Shingo Kunieda was knocked out of the men's wheelchair singles at Wimbledon today after an epic three-setter against last year's runner-up, Gustavo Fernandez of Argentina.

third.Fernandez, beaten by Kunieda in this year's French Open as the Japanese player earned his seventh Roland

Garros singles title, will next meet Joachim Gerard in the semi-finals, following the German player's



How the Championships at Wimbledon went open - for business - 50 years ago

  • The Big Read

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Wimbledon Championships, which get underway tomorrow, going open - a switch that has transformed the fortunes of generations of players, not to mention the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club which has hosted its event in south-west London since 1877.

tennis Grand Slams to allow professional players to join in - that honour fell to the French Open at Roland

Garros, held earlier in the year from May 27 to June 9.But the step change that enabled the game to

strikes throughout May, that players involved in that first open Grand Slam were scrambling even to reach Roland



Nadal beats Thiem in straight sets to clinch 11th French Open title

  • Tennis

French Open title as he beat Austrian Dominic Thiem in straight sets in the men's singles final at Roland

Garros today.

yesterday.Thiem, the seventh seed tipped as one of the only players in the world capable of beating Nadal at Roland

Garros, was competing in his first Grand Slam final.The Spaniard dominated from start to finish to claim


Halep clinches first Grand Slam title with three-set victory over Stephens at French Open

  • Tennis

World number one Simona Halep secured her first Grand Slam title as she fought back from a set down to beat US Open champion Sloane Stephens in the women's singles final at the French Open.

crown as she recorded a 2-6, 6-4, 6-1 victory over her American opponent on the iconic red clay at Roland

 "I was dreaming of this moment since I started playing tennis and I'm happy it happened at Roland

Garros."