In the first French Open since Rafael Nadal’s retirement, Carlos Alcaraz is a strong favorite to defend his title in Paris as ...

The 2025 French Open is about to kick off at Stade Roland-Garros in Paris. The second Grand Slam in the tennis world of the ...

Swiatek remains the benchmark, but Aryna Sabalenka, Coco Gauff and Jasmine Paolini have all made major clay-court moves in a reshuffled Top 15 heading into the season’s second Slam.

Clay has never felt like a natural happy hunting ground for British players. The grass-court season on home turf ... momentum over the long drag of the tennis tour. With that has come a ...

Because the red clay court in Paris slows everything down. Many consider this to be tennis at its most grueling and difficult. This is the tournament that broke Pete Sampras. It pushed Roger ...

Jack Draper's improved clay-court game makes him one of the French Open's contenders - but what makes a player excel on the ...

Jack Draper's progression into a clay-court contender and Jannik Sinner's return head up your weekly tennis round-up.

The king is dead, long live the king. As tennis moves to clay courts for the next few months, one of the sport’s greatest on the surface will be abscent for the first time in two decades.

MINNEAPOLIS — A nonprofit organization is leading the way to help put down clay tennis courts across Minneapolis. "They're the best courts in the Twin Cities," said Charles Weed, president of ...

The almost cathedral-like silence of Court Philippe Chatrier is broken only by the thrumming of large squeegees scraping the clay ... "It's still a privilege. Tennis fans would write a huge ...

In contrast, about 60% of courts in Spain - one of the leading nations on the surface - are clay. The National Tennis Centre has four clay courts, external and the governing body is "forming new ...