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Two Canadians were in action on the opening day of play on Sunday at Roland-Garros in Paris, France. / En cette première journée d’activités à Roland-Garros, deux Canadiens étaient en action, soit Milos Raonic (Thornhill, ON) et Peter Polansky (Thornhill, ON).
We are in Paris. The weather stinks. But we are in Paris. We even had a rainbow over the Eiffel tower. And how cool is the huge tennis ball hanging from the tower ?
Tennis Channel, the only 24-hour, television-based multimedia destination dedicated to both the professional sport and tennis lifestyle, has unveiled an annual digital subscription service – Tennis Channel Plus – on opening day of the 2014 French Open.
French Open fans will be getting beaucoup plus de tennis along with new fan-friendly features with DIRECTV’s interactive, bonus coverage of early round matches of the French Open May 25-June 1.
Mats Merkel is a key member of the Adidas high performance team. Here he is @roland Garros taking a selfie. Look at those clouds in the background. Look at that smile. He is ready to go.
If Broadway's hottest musical is “Sunday In The Park With George,” the hottest act in tennis is the French Open. One does not have to reach far to find parallels. The setting is the same (Paris) and the musical's motif is the famous Impressionist painting whose color is dabbed on canvas by thousands of pigment points which could easily be metaphors for the quarter-million fans that inhabit Stade Roland Garros over its fortnight.
Take a look at all the action going on at Roland Garros, French Open.
This week in Paris has been wild. It's spring but we've had rain and sun. We had traffic jams and mob scenes but they aren't for the players or the players party.
The next match played by an American man will come at the French Open, as the USA contingent at the Open de Nice Cote d'Azur saw its last representative bow out on Thursday. John Isner lost to Federico Delbonis 6-4, 5-7, 7-6(6) in a quarterfinal thriller to end his campaign as the tournament's No. 1 seed.
With the French Open starting the week after next, the battle for seeding at the season's second Grand Slam ends this Sunday. That means results of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome will determine the final outcomes.
Daniel Kosakowski has the lead for the USTA's main-draw wild card into the French Open after reaching the semifinals of the Sarasota Challenger. Kosakowski scored straight-set wins over Michael Russell, James McGee, and James Ward before falling to Nick Kyrgios on Saturday.
Subscribers of DISH Network L.L.C., a wholly owned subsidiary of DISH Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH), are now able to access Tennis Channel’s linear stream through DishAnywhere.com on computers and the Tennis Channel Everywhere app for Android and iOS devices.
Mention the French Open to a tennis fan and most likely the first image that pops into their mind is a red clay court. The clay court season has arrived and it is arguably the most challenging surface as well as fun surface to play on. Red clay courts are made up of crushed shale, stone, or brick and unlike a hard court they demand a lot of care to be maintained.
BNP Paribas is the most generous sponsor in tennis today and has been a major backer of the sport since taking its first steps into tennis sponsorship in 1973 with the French Open at Roland Garros.
Maria Sharapova - or least her replica - will have the honor of taking a place as the first tennis star in the Hong Kong outpost of the world-famed Madame Tussauds wax museum. The WTA No. 3 and winner of four grand slam event titles is being added to a growing collection of famous names on display...
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