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The British No.4 Dan Cox has been awarded the fifth and final wild card into the Aegon Championships, which starts at The Queen’s Club on Monday.
Marion Bartoli will share a court with fellow Wimbledon singles champion Andy Murray as part of the Rally For Bally on June 15th.
Maria Sharapova and Simona Halep have a date on Saturday. They will meet in the women’s singles final.
Only two of the top four seeds are still alive for semifinal action on Friday at Roland Garros, but three of the so-called "Big 4" have advanced. Ernests Gulbis is joining Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Andy Murray for what is an intriguing lineup.
Rain began in the wee hours of Wednesday morning and it continued most of the day, putting quite a hitch in the plans for quarterfinal play at Roland Garros. An umbrella was the most popular accessory.
Click here to see EPA photos of the players @ the French Open.
For someone who swears she felt like a cow on ice each time she was competing on red clay only a few years ago, Maria Sharapova has made herself right at home on the surface, having won six of her last eight titles on terre battue. It has become her friend and a good friend indeed.
Six of the top eight seeds are through to the French Open quarterfinals on the men's side. And the only two that are not--Stan Wawrinka and Roger Federer--have worthy replacements in the form of Gael Monfils and Ernests Gulbis. The result is a blockbuster lineup in the last eight.
For the first time since 2004, Roger Federer is out of the French Open prior to the quarterfinals. His exit did not, however, come before an entertaining five-set battle against Ernests Gulbis that saw the underdog prevail 6-7(5), 7-6(3), 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.
Gael Monfils and Fabio Fognini delivered again at the French Open, producing a match that was short on quality at times but off the charts in drama. When it was all said and done, Monfils survived a back-and-forth third-round tussle with a 5-7, 6-2, 6-4, 0-6, 6-2 victory.
Click here to see some EPA photos from the French Open.
No matter that Warren Buffett does not offer $1 billion for a perfect French Open bracket like he does for the NCAA basketball tournament. Nobody would come close. Among those in the third round are Jack Sock, Dusan Lajovic, and Donald Young.
More hours of grass court tennis will be shown on British television than ever before in the run-up to The Championships, Wimbledon after the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) signed an agreement with BT Sport to cover the Aegon Classic (Birmingham), the Aegon Championships (Queen’s) and the Aegon International (Eastbourne) in June.
The Australian Open champion and World No.3 Stanislas Wawrinka has added further strength and star-quality to the Aegon Championships player field after receiving a wild card into the tournament at The Queen’s Club, 9-15 June.
Roger is the man. When you visit eBay and enter tennis in the "search" he comes up with the most items for bid / sale. Some of the staff here @10sballs_com are tennis collectors. GEEZER ( thank you Casey Wasserman ) has been a 10s collector since childhood.
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