Four women made the quarterfinals Sunday at the French Open, and three of them had reached this stage before.

Former finalist Sloane Stephens got off to a rocky start but then won 12 straight games to roll past the dangerous Jil Tiechmann 6-2, 6-0.

The win sets up a showdown with Coco Gauff who has a similar win over former Top 10 Elise Mertens. Gauff and Mertens were deadlocked at 4-all in …

For just the third time in his historic French Open history, Rafael Nadal had to go the distance. Today, Felx Auger Aliassime pushed the 13-time champion to five sets in a 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 fourth round affair.

Nadal’s game went awry shortly after the start of the match. With Toni Nadal watching from the front row along the baseline, conflicted on if to support Rafa of Auger Aliassime who …

Even more upsets hit the women’s draw at the French Open as No. 3 seed Paula Badosa and No. 7 Aryna Sabalenka both exited.

Badosa couldn’t even finish her match with Veronika Kudermetova due to a knee injury at 6-3, 2-1. Badosa won the first two games then dropped the next five as the injury flared up.

Sabalenka was subdued in three sets by an upset-minded Camila Giorgi who downed the Belarussian …

After two rough rounds, 2021 finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas had a welcomed easy afternoon at the French Open as the Greek hammered fellow 23-year-old Miakel Ymer 6-2, 6-2, 6-1.

“A lot of good rallies from my side,” said Tsitsipas on court. “I have a long history with Mikael, playing in juniors, and we’ve played each other a lot. I would like to congratulate him on his great effort, he had a good …

It was a big day for American women at the French Open as all three in action advanced to the final 16.

Former finalist Sloane Stephens rolled past Frenchwoman Diane Parry 6-2, 6-3. It’s her eighth week two appearance in Paris.

“I grew up in south Florida, playing on green clay, which is totally different,” said Stephens.

“I’ve always loved playing on it, in juniors here I did pretty well and I just …

The third round of the men’s draw opened with mostly blowouts.

Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal were dominant in wins today. Djokovic manhandled Aljaz Bedene 6-3, 6-3, 6-2 to win his 8th straight match and 19 straight sets.

“It’s subjective. You can’t play a perfect match but you always try to play close to perfection. I have big expectations on my level every day, whenever I enter a tennis court, when I …

With her loss at the French Open yesterday to Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Emma Raducanu will set her sights on playing on the grass in front of her home fans first the first time as a Grand Slam champion.

“It’s going to be really nice to go home and play, you know, on home turf, on the home grass,” Raducanu said. “It is going to be a little bit strange in the beginning, …

Alexander Zverev saved a match point in a comeback win over Sebastian Baez. With his off court issues and on court incidents, it’s been a tumultuous season for the former US Open champion.

Zverez, after the win, admitted to being depressed at times, opening up about mental issues and how that is or — in his case — isn’t like to social media.

“I think some players talk about it more often, …

More top seeds were eliminated on Thursday at the French Open. Former No. 1 Karolina Pliskova and Australian Open finalist Danielle Collins both lost.

Pliskova, who hasn’t been to week two in Paris in five years, was dropped by French wildcard Leolia Jeanjean 6-2, 6-2.

The 26-year-old Jeanjean is ranked No. 227, and she becomes the third lowest ranked player to beat a Top 10 this year.

“I’m very surprised,” said Jeanjean who …

The top seeds continued to roll at the French Open. World No. 2 Daniil Medvedev, who has a shot at No. 1 this week, cruised into his second straight third round in Paris blowing past Laslo Djere 6-3, 6-4, 6-3.

“Today I think to be honest, Laslo was playing the better clay-court tennis,” the 26-year-old Medvedev told the crowd. “But I managed to fight and just put one more ball in …

After a day of normalcy, more upsets hit the women’s draw Wednesday as Maria Sakkari and Emma Raducanu were shown the exit.

The world No. 3 Sakkari, who was a point from the final a year ago, fell to former Australian Open semifinalist Karolina Muchova 7-6(5), 7-6(4).

The Czech was off the tour with a nagging ab injury from the US Open until returning in Miami, but once again proved that when …

The second round opened Wednesday at the French Open and in the star-filled top half, two favorites rolled while the other had to escape.

Novak Djokovic had no trouble dismissing Alex Molcan 6-2, 6-3, 7-6(4). The lefty Molcan, who is being coached by Djokovic’s ex Marian Vajda and just made the Lyon final, put up a strong fight in the third before Djokovic prevailed to win his 7th straight match and …

After two day of upsets, order was mostly restored in the women’s draw at the French Open for the close of the first round.

Former champion Simona Halep survived 18-year-old lucky loser Nastasja Schunk 6-4, 1-6, 6-1.

Schunk, who made the Wimbledon junior final, rolled Halep in the second before the Romanian returned the favor.

“In the third set, I restarted everything,” said Halep. “I just fought for every ball. I restarted …

The storied career of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga came to an end Tuesday at the French Open, but not without a fight.

The 37-year-old Tsonga was matched up with one of the best clay courters in the world in Casper Ruud, and the Frenchman thrilled the crowd taking the first set.

The nervous Norwegian settled down and took control but Tsonga got a break in the fourth. His bid to serve it out …

All-time greats Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic has no issues whatever in the first matches at the French Open.

Nadal shrugged off any foot issues by pounding Jordan Thompson 6-2, 6-2, 6-2. It was Nadal’s 106th career win at the French Open, the most in the history of any Slam.

“It is a good start, of course,” said Nadal. “I played good for a while, then things that I could do better …