Rafael Nadal and Milos Raonic are one win away from playing each other, and neither had a difficult time advancing on Friday at Roland Garros, losing only two games between them to opponents in Paris.

The No. 4-seeded Nadal was at the top of his game in steamrolling a hapless Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-0, 6-1, 6-0. The No. 5-seeded Raonic advanced when Spanish opponent Guillermo Garcia-Lopez retired with the Canadian leading 6-1, …

No. 4 seed and defending champion Garbine Muguruza led on a rain-shortened day at Roland Garros where there were no upsets in third-round play.

The Spaniard on Friday moved into the fourth round after a 7-5, 6-2 win over No. 27 seed Yulia Putintseva.

“With each match my confidence is improving,” Muguruza said. “It’s important that each match I’ve played here has not been easy. I went out there without fear. I …

During a sponsor function today at the French Open, Andre Agassi revealed for the first time his relationship with Novak Djokovic.

And the tennis great said that he doesn’t expect Novak

“For me, I do it on my own time, I do it on my own dime, my own money,” Agassi said. “I don’t want anything, I don’t get anything. I want to help him and it helps the game. Him at …

Novak Djokovic got into it with chair umpire Carlos Ramos today during a tougher-than-expected third round win over Diego Schwartzman.

Ramos hit Djokovic with an unsportsmanlike conduct warning late in the fourth for his attitude toward the chair.

Djokovic ended up dropping his serve that game but then rolled breaking right back and taking the fifth 61. And he commented after that the struggle will …

Rafael Nadal is getting better! That’s right, on the eve of his 31st birthday Nadal registered the easy win of his Grand Slam career Friday at the French Open blowing out Nikolaz Basilashvili 60, 61, 60 in just 90 minutes.

The one game lost was the fewest Nadal’s surrendered in a Grand Slam match beating his former best a 62, 60, 60 beating he gave Juan Monaco in the 2012 French …

If world No. 1 Andy Murray is going to win the French Open this year, he’s going to do it the hard way.

The Brit, who played poorly on the red dirt heading into Roland Garros, on Thursday narrowly avoided a five-setter with a late surge, coming from a break down in the fourth to defeat Martin Klizan 6-7(3), 6-2, 6-2, 7-6(3) to move into the third round.

“I certainly didn’t want …

Simona Halep is looking more like the favorite every day during week one of the French Open, on Thursday handling the aggressive, big-hitting German riser Tatjana Maria 6-4, 6-3 while her Top 10-seeded compatriots all struggled.

“It was a difficult match today,” said Halep, who was a bit flustered by the variety of Maria, who had beaten Halep in both their previous encounters eight years ago. “I didn’t expect her to …

French Open favorites Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Dominic Thiem enjoyed easy straight-set victories into the third round at Roland Garros on Wednesday.

The No. 2 Djokovic defeated Portugal’s Joao Sousa 6-1, 6-4, 6-3; No. 4 Nadal eased by Dutchman Robin Haase 6-1, 6-4, 6-3; and No. 6 Thiem defeated Italy’s Simone Bolelli 7-5, 6-1, 6-3.

“It was a solid match, solid performance,” said Thiem afterwards. “A little bit of a bad …

There were upsets a-plenty Wednesday on the women’s side at the French Open where a former Slam winner, a former Slam finalist and one of the hottest claycourt players over the last year were shown the door.

Two Americans led the upsets as Bethanie Mattek-Sands stopped the comeback run of No. 15 Petra Kvitova 7-6(5), 7-6(5), and teenager Catherine Bellis stunned No. 18 Kiki Bertens 6-3, 7-6(5). Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur was …

Just a few weeks after the passing of his father, American Steve Johnson is back on the tour trying to continue to play tennis, but it hasn’t been easy to do it with such a heavy heart.

The 27-year-old held off a late surge by Yuichi Sugita to win in five sets in the first set. Today, he again was up two sets this time on Borna Coric. But the Croat …

Absent from the tour the rest of the season, Serena Williams stopped by the French Open to watch big sister Venus destroy Karumi Nara 63, 61 in the second round of the French Open.

Pregnant with a baby girl due later this summer, Serena has been in Europe and showed up at Venus’s match in the middle of the first set.

“Yeah, she said, ‘Good job’. She came in sometime during the …

Thirty is the new 20 in men’s tennis.

So it was apropos that 33-year-old Fernando Verdasco brought the hot sauce on Tuesday at the French Open, defeating Masters Rome champion and No. 9-seeded Roland Garros dark horse Alexander Zverev 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2.

“It’s my 14th year,” a jubilant Verdasco told the crowd afterwards. “It’s a pleasure for me to be playing here still. I’ve been practicing very hard, and a little …

Johanna Konta does not like to play on clay.

On Tuesday the No. 7-seeded Brit made her second consecutive first-round exit at Roland Garros, falling 1-6, 7-6(2), 6-4 to Hsieh Su-wei, a Taiwanese 31-year-old doubles specialist ranked outside the Top 100.

“I know results-wise it doesn’t reflect it necessarily but the conversations I have with my coach and the way I feel, I’ve actually made a lot of improvements on this surface …

French Open favorites Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic led the charge on Day 2 at Roland Garros on Monday as the No. 2-seeded Serb beat Spaniard Marcel Granollers 6-3, 6-4, 6-2, and the No. 4-seeded Spaniard rolled past France’s Benoit Paire 6-1, 6-4, 6-1.

“It was a bit of a rusty start,” said Djokovic, who while winning in straights needed eight set points to close out the first with new coach …

World No. 1 Angie Kerber’s loss on Sunday opened the gate for a new No. 1 player, and Karolina Pliskova is open to taking the mantle.

The No. 2-seeded Czech opened her Roland Garros campaign on Monday with a 7-5, 6-2 win over China’s Zheng Saisai. Pliskova by reaching the final can become No. 1 on the WTA rankings in two week’s time.

Pliskova will next be tasked with the big-hitting Russian …