Slam title when thrashing Spaniard Garbiñe Muguruza 6-1, 6-4 in the French Open semi-final today at Roland

Garros.

Romania's world number one Simona Halep recovered from a set down to beat Angelique Kerber 6-7, 6-3, 6-2 and set-up a French Open semi-final with Spaniard Garbiñe Muguruza today.

the scheduled men's quarter-finals came close to completion.Halep has been a beaten finalist twice at Roland

Garros and moved one win closer to an elusive first Grand Slam title.She battled back to 5-5 from a

Italian Marco Cecchinato stunned Serbia's Novak Djokovic to reach the semi-finals of the French Open at Roland

Garros today.

I am very happy because it is unbelievable to beat Novak Djokovic at a quarter-final in Roland Garros

Top seed Rafael Nadal booked his place in the quarter-finals of the French Open with another straight sets victory as Serena Williams withdrew from a Grand Slam for the first time with an arm injury prior to her eagerly-anticipated clash with Maria Sharapova.

Spaniard Nadal, chasing an 11th title at Roland Garros, recovered from a sluggish start against a confident

right pectoral injury.Wishing the three-time champion a speedy recovery. pic.twitter.com/bo3e1jkgcv— Roland-Garros

Jimmy Connors, in his predictably chippy, feisty, unputdownable and aptly entitled 2013 autobiography The Outsider, describes tennis as "boxing at 90 feet".

ducking and diving and consistently jabbing at his opponent’s weak spots to earn a famous victory.At Roland

Garros this week there has been another masterly exhibition of sparring from a female player who, at

match against unseeded Russian Karen Khachanov to book his spot in the last eight of the French Open at Roland

Garros today.

Rafael Nadal beat France's Richard Gasquet in straight sets to reach the last 16 of the French Open at Roland

Garros.

round of the French Open with a four-set victory over 13th seed Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain at Roland

Garros.

booked their places in the third round with straight sets victories as the French Open continued at Roland

Garros in Paris.

Serena Williams made a winning return to the Grand Slam stage with a straight-sets success over Czech Republic's Kristyna Pliskova today at the French Open.

The American, a three-time winner at Roland Garros, fell 3-0 down in a first-set tie-break in a match

Garcia-Lopez over five-sets today as Marco Trungelliti proved a successful lucky loser at the French Open in Roland

Garros.

Jelena Ostapenko was dumped out of the French Open in the first round as competition began today at Roland

Garros, with a straight-sets defeat to Kateryna Kozlova.

China's world number 91 Wang Qiang.Wang triumphed 6-4, 7-5 against the American, who was runner-up at Roland

Garros in 2002.Venus Williams was also beaten in the first round today ©Getty ImagesBritain's Johanna

Rafael Nadal is set to begin his quest for an 11th French Open title with action in Paris scheduled to begin tomorrow.

The Spaniard will first take to the court at Roland Garros when he faces Italy’s Simone Bolelli on Monday

WTA) Tour this year.She has lost in three previous Grand Slam finals, however, two of which came at Roland

The French Tennis Federation have announced that home duo Frederic Cattaneo and Charlotte Famin have been given wildcard entries for this year's wheelchair events at the French Open.

four.The announcement of the wildcard places means the full line-up of the 16 players who will compete at Roland

Garros has now been confirmed.The top seven ranked men's and women's singles players at the entry cut-off

of France.Two-time champion Kamiji is one of three previous women's singles champions competing at Roland

Garros along with Sabine Ellerbrock of Germany and Marjolein Buis of The Netherlands.The remaining players

Germany's Alexander Zverev has claimed his third ATP World Tour Masters title after beating Austria's Dominic Thiem in the Mutua Madrid Open final.

French Open, which is due to begin on May 27.Nadal is the defending champion and a 10-time winner at Roland

Garros.