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Fifth-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas, seeking his first career Grand Slam title, held off a comeback bid from Czech Jiri Vesely 7-5, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (7) to win his ope

PARIS (AP) — Unable to sleep the night before her first-round match at the French Open against Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus, the Grand Slam tournaments No. 2 seed, Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine checked her phone at 5 a.m. Sunday and saw disturbing news back home in Kyiv. At least one person was killed when the capital of Kostyuks country was subjected to the largest drone attack by Russia since the start of its war, launched with an invasion assisted by Belarus in February 2022.

PARIS -- Unable to sleep the night before her first-round match at the French Open against Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus, the Grand Slam tournaments No. 2 seed, Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine checked her phone at 5 a.m. Sunday and saw disturbing news back home in Kyiv.

The famously fickle Paris crowd made themselves heard on the opening day of the French Open, booing when Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk refused to shake hands after her first-round defeat by Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus on Sunday. Stefanos Tsitsipas, the runner-up in Paris in 2021, was later dragged into a dogfight…

Second seed Aryna Sabalenka moved into the second round at the French Open on Sunday after a 6-3, 6-2 dismissal of the unseeded Ukrainian Mart

PARIS—Unable to sleep the night before her first-round match at the French Open against Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus, the Grand Slam tournament's No. 2 seed, Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine checked her phone at 5 a.m. Sunday and saw disturbing news back home in Kyiv. At least one person was killed when the capital of Kostyuk's…

Tensions between players over Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine bubbled to the surface on the first day of the 2023 French Open at Roland Garros.

Second seed Aryna Sabalenka moved into the second round at the French Open on Sunday after a 6-3, 6-2 dismissal of the unseeded Ukrainian Mart

Understand that and i understand that this is not kind of personal, you know. while sabalenka shone, maria sakkari slumped. the semi—finalist in 2021 found herself a set down to an inspired karolina muchova who refused to let up in the second. the unseeeded czech, who knocked sakkari out of roland garros last year, once again proved to be greek�*s nemesis. dispatching her in straight sets. no such problems for sakkaris compatriot stefanos tsitsipas although he was made to work far harder tha...

French Open fans loudly booed and derisively whistled at Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk as she acknowledged the chair umpire instead of Aryna Sabalenka.