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Garcia retiring, set to play final French Open

Caroline Garcia, a former US Open semifinalist who has been ranked as high as No. 4, says she will retire from tennis.

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The Świątek problem: can Coco Gauff flip the script at Roland Garros?

Coco Gauff’s brilliance on clay has been overshadowed by Iga Świątek’s dominance. But in a shifting 2025 landscape, Gauff may finally be ready to rewrite the ending If she only had the fortune of being born seven years earlier, Coco Gauff might have won Roland Garros three times already. Gauff, now 21 years old, hasn’t lost before the quarter-final of the tournament since she was 16, a run of consistency many top players would kill for. Good luck hitting through her on the slow clay surface, she is blindingly fast. She can rip her backhand down the line and offset her shaky forehand by loading the ball with topspin and fluttering it deep towards the opponent’s baseline. All this, on paper, makes for a modern clay-court great – or at the very least, the first American Roland Garros champion since (who else?) Serena Williams. But Gauff is yet to win the title at Roland Garros, or receive much credit for her clay-court pedigree. All thanks to the cosmically bad luck of sharing a generation with Iga Natalia Świątek. Continue reading...

3 hours ago