Tommy Paul was pleased to come back to win his first-round match at the French Open, of course, but perhaps not as thrilled as he was to discuss regaining the truck that was repossessed back home in Florida when he accidentally missed some payments.

Heading into the French Open, an argument could be made that the headlines about tennis lately have been as, or more, intriguing off the court — and in the court of law — than on the court of play.

The French Open is entering a new era this year now that Rafael Nadal has retired.

Play in the year’s second Grand Slam tennis tournament is scheduled to begin at the French Open on the red clay courts of Roland-Garros on Sunday.

Andre Agassi has won his professional pickleball debut a day after turning 55.

Home-crowd favorite Carlos Alcaraz has withdrawn from the Madrid Open because of muscle injuries.

Rafael Nadal will be honored at the French Open with a tribute on Court Philippe-Chatrier during the opening day on May 25.

Rafael Nadal is retiring from professional tennis at age 38 after winning 22 Grand Slam titles — 14 at the French Open — during an unprecedented era he shared with rivals Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic.

Novak Djokovic says he understands why Jannik Sinner’s lack of a suspension despite two positive drug tests has some tennis players questioning whether there’s a double standard in the sport.

A visually impaired Para-judo athlete is captivating crowds at the Paris 2024 Olympics as a boxing announcer.

Coco Gauff, Novak Djokovic and other players at the U.S. Open will be playing for a record total of $75 million in compensation at the year’s last Grand Slam tennis tournament.

Top-ranked Iga Swiatek has lost in the Paris Olympics semifinals to Zheng Qinwen of China 6-2, 7-5.

Coco Gauff has lost in women’s doubles at the Paris Olympics a day after her tearful exit in singles.

Iga Swiatek dropped to her knees on the court and clutched at her midsection after getting hit by a ball during a point in the Paris Olympics singles quarterfinals.

Naomi Osaka is back on the tennis tour, back at a Summer Olympics and back at Roland Garros.

Tennis star Coco Gauff will join LeBron James as a flag bearer for the U.S. Olympic team at Friday’s opening ceremony.

There is a real shift happening at the top of tennis, a youth movement that long seemed inevitable but never actually arrived until now.

The IOC has invited eight top Russian tennis players plus Aryna Sabalenka and Victoria Azarenka from Belarus to compete as neutral athletes at the Paris Olympics.

Coco Gauff will lead the U.S. tennis team at the Paris Olympics three years after missing the Tokyo Games because she tested positive for COVID-19.

Former Grand Slam champions Naomi Osaka, Caroline Wozniacki, Angelique Kerber and Emma Raducanu have all been awarded wild cards for Wimbledon.

The Spanish tennis federation says Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz will play doubles together for Spain at the upcoming Paris Olympics.

Jannik Sinner has moved up to No. 1 in the ATP rankings for the first time.

Carlos Alcaraz plans to continue his tradition of celebrating Grand Slam titles with tattoos by getting ink of the date he won his first French Open championship and a drawing of the Eiffel Tower.

French Open tournament director Amélie Mauresmo says the sight of empty seats in the main stadium, particularly for the singles semifinals, was disappointing.

Coco Gauff is a Grand Slam champion in singles and doubles.

Carlos Alcaraz has come back to defeat Alexander Zverev 6-3, 2-6, 5-7, 6-1, 6-2 to win the French Open for his third Grand Slam title.

Top-ranked Diede de Groot has won a record 22nd Grand Slam wheelchair singles title when she rallied to beat unseeded Zhu Zhenzhen 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the French Open women’s final.

Iga Swiatek has won her third consecutive French Open championship and fourth in five years by defeating Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 6-1.

Alexander Zverev has moved a win away from his first Grand Slam title with a 2-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 victory over Casper Ruud in the French Open semifinals.

A German court has dropped a case against tennis star Alexander Zverev after he agreed to pay 200,000 euros — about $218,000 — and reached an out-of-court settlement with his former partner.

Coco Gauff thinks it’s about time that tennis moved into the 21st century and relied on video replay technology at all events, the way many other sports do.

Novak Djokovic says surgery on his right knee went well after he was injured during the French Open.

Mirra Andreeva, a 17-year-old unseeded Russian, has defeated No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka at the French Open to reach the semifinals.

Novak Djokovic has pulled out of the French Open with an injured knee.

Coco Gauff and defending champion Iga Swiatek have set up a showdown in the French Open semifinals.

Novak Djokovic played through a painful right knee with the help of medicine and come back to beat No. 23 Francisco Cerundolo 6-1, 5-7, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 in the French Open’s fourth round for his record 370th win in a Grand Slam match.

Catching the right amount of sleep is no easy task in Grand Slam tennis these days — for the athletes or those watching them compete.

Novak Djokovic’s French Open title defense and his hold on No. 1 in the rankings are still alive thanks to a 7-5, 6-7 (6), 2-6, 6-3, 6-0 victory over 22-year-old Italian Lorenzo Musetti in a third-round match.

A pigeon landed on the court during a French Open match, leading the chair umpire to use a towel to rescue the fallen fowl.

Grand Slam winners Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sabalenka have reached the fourth round of the French Open in straight sets.

Sixth-seeded Andrey Rublev has lost to Matteo Arnaldi in straight sets in the French Open third round and berated himself for his behavior.

German news agency dpa reports that tennis player Alexander Zverev’s trial has started, with the Olympic champion facing allegations of allegedly causing bodily harm to a woman.

The rain just keeps coming at the French Open.

The French Open has banned fans from having alcohol in the stands at the Grand Slam tournament in Paris.

Unseeded American Peyton Stearns’ elimination of No. 10 Daria Kasatkina at the French Open was one of several losses for seeded women on a rainy day filled with matches.

Defending champion Novak Djokovic has won his first-round match at the French Open by beating Pierre-Hugues Herbert 6-4, 7-6 (3), 6-4.

Rafael Nadal lost in the first round of the French Open to Alexander Zverev 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-3 in what might turn out to be the 14-time Roland Garros champion's last match at his favorite tournament.

The French tennis federation has decided to put off holding a ceremony to celebrate Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros this year.

This might not turn out to be Rafael Nadal’s last French Open, after all.

Even Carlos Alcaraz couldn’t tell you exactly what’s been wrong with his right forearm, the part of his body that is responsible for his thunderous forehands.

Carlos Alcaraz beat Alexander Zverev 6-3, 2-6, 5-7, 6-1, 6-2 to win the French Open for the first time and collect his third Grand Slam title.

Rafael Nadal will begin what is expected to be his last French Open appearance against No. 4-seeded Alexander Zverev.

This French Open is expected to be the last one for Rafael Nadal.

Fifteen days before he is scheduled to play in what will likely be his final French Open, Rafael Nadal is so unsatisfied with his level of tennis that he’s still debating whether or not to go to Roland Garros.

Organizers of the tennis French Open say the second retractable roof at Roland Garros will be inaugurated on the opening day of main draw play next month.

Novak Djokovic faces Daniil Medvedev for the U.S. Open men's singles championship on Sunday.

The tall task of determining Victor Wembanyama’s height isn’t finished yet.

Victor Wembanyama has arrived in the U.S. for the NBA draft.

Adieu France, hello America.

Scheduling more night sessions for women is proving a tough issue to resolve for French Open tournament director Amélie Mauresmo.

Novak Djokovic will be trying to set the record for the most Grand Slam singles trophies won by a man when he goes for what would be No. 23 against Casper Ruud in the French Open final on Sunday.

Iga Swiatek has defeated Karolina Muchova 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 to collect her third championship at Roland Garros and fourth Grand Slam title.

Coco Gauff has lost in the French Open quarterfinals to two-time champion Iga Swiatek in a rematch of last year's final at Roland Garros.

Novak Djokovic has come back after dropping a set for the first time in the tournament to beat 11th-seeded Karen Khachanov 4-6, 7-6 (0), 6-2, 6-4 at the French Open to reach his 45th career Grand Slam semifinal.

Novak Djokovic has broken a tie with rival Rafael Nadal by reaching the French Open quarterfinals for the record 17th time.

Coco Gauff has won an all-teen showdown to reach the fourth round of the French Open.

Reigning Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina has pulled out of the French Open before her third-round match on Saturday because she is sick.

Top tennis player Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus has been allowed to avoid a traditional postmatch news conference at the French Open after saying she did not feel safe when a reporter asked about the war in Ukraine during previous question-and-answer sessions.

Mirra Andreeva is the latest teen sensation in tennis, a 16-year-old Russian who is the youngest player to win a match in the women’s main draw at the French Open since 2005.

Peyton Stearns is playing in the French Open for the first time and now the 21-year-old American is into the third round after knocking off 2017 champion Jelena Ostapenko.

Novak Djokovic refrained from any political messages at the French Open after a second-round victory that was a struggle for a set, hours after a government minister criticized the 22-time Grand Slam champion’s comments about clashes in Kosovo as “not appropriate.”.

Novak Djokovic has drawn criticism from Kosovo’s tennis federation — but not from French Open organizers — after offering his thoughts on clashes in northern Kosovo between ethnic Serbs and police and NATO peacekeepers.

Second-seeded Daniil Medvedev has lost in the first round of the French Open in five sets to an opponent who is ranked just 172nd and was playing only his second match in the main draw of any Grand Slam tournament.

Barbora Krejcikova is trying not to think too much about her past two trips to the French Open as she prepares to play her first-round match Tuesday in Paris.

Aryna Sabalenka initially thought the boos and derisive whistles coming from the French Open crowd were directed at her after a first-round victory.

Much of this French Open can best be viewed through the prism of Rafael Nadal’s absence.

Carlos Alcaraz and 22-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic have been placed in the same half of the French Open field in the draw and could face each other in the semifinals.

French Open organizers say that three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray has withdrawn from the clay-court event.

Twenty-year-old Danish player Holger Rune recorded his second victory over Novak Djokovic in little more than six months by beating the 22-time Grand Slam champion 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 to reach the Italian Open semifinals.

Novak Djokovic had to overcome a mid-match lapse before beating Grigor Dimitrov 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 to reach the fourth round of the Italian Open.

Rafael Nadal has pulled out of the clay-court Monte Carlo Masters.

Tournament organizers say Rafael Nadal is aiming to make his comeback from a hip injury at the clay-court Monte Carlo Masters next month.

It was a long road back to elite-level tennis for Mackenzie McDonald.

Coco Gauff acknowledges she tends to be in a bit of a hurry as she moves through life.

Alexander Zverev, the 2020 U.S. Open runner-up, will miss the tournament this year while recovering from surgery on his right ankle.

Sixth-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime is out of Wimbledon in the first round.

2014 U.S. Open champion and 2017 Wimbledon runner-up Marin Cilic pulled out of the grass-court Grand Slam tournament because he tested positive for COVID-19.

Naomi Osaka has pulled out of Wimbledon for the second consecutive year.

None of the so-called Big Three of men’s tennis is in the No. 1 or No. 2 spots in the ATP rankings.

American teenager Coco Gauff has moved up to a career-best No. 13 in the WTA rankings after her runner-up finish to No. 1 Iga Swiatek at the French Open.

Rafael Nadal tells TV rights holder Eurosport in an interview on court after the French Open final that he played the match with “no feeling in” his left foot after getting an “injection on the nerve.”.

Coco Gauff is certain there will be more Grand Slam finals in her future after losing her first at age 18 at the French Open.

Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador and Jean-Julien Rojer of Netherlands won the French Open men’s doubles championship by beating Ivan Dodig of Croatia and Austin Krajicek of the U.S. 6-7 (4), 7-6 (5), 6-3 in the final.

Casper Ruud has become the first Norwegian man to reach a Grand Slam singles final by eliminating 2014 U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 at Roland Garros.

Rafael Nadal showed up at Roland Garros with his personal doctor along for the trip.

Billie Jean King was back on Court Philippe Chatrier for a ceremony celebrating the 50th anniversary of her victory at Roland Garros.

Marin Cilic has dominated a fifth-set tiebreaker against seventh-seeded Andrey Rublev to advance to his first French Open semifinal.

Rafael Nadal has beaten Novak Djokovic 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (4) in a monumental match in the French Open quarterfinals to move a step closer to his 14th championship at the clay-court Grand Slam tournament and 22nd major trophy overall.

Rafael Nadal has beaten Novak Djokovic 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (4) in a monumental match in the French Open quarterfinals to move a step closer to his 14th championship at the clay-court Grand Slam tournament and 22nd major trophy overall.

It took until the fourth round, but now it’s the high-seeded men who are exiting the French Open.