Fun French Open whets Wimbledon appetite - Second Serve

Everyone needed a dishonesty down aft 2 aggravated French Open finals.

When Coco Gauff and Carlos Alcaraz some fell level connected nan tribunal aft winning nan respective Roland Garros singles titles, it summed up a chaotic conclusion to a thrilling tournament.

It was a French Open that delivered nan batch - and whets nan appetite for nan Wimbledon, which is conscionable astir nan corner.

Recent editions of nan clay-court Grand Slam tourney person been alternatively predictable.

Rafael Nadal regularly handed retired one-sided beatings connected his measurement to a scarcely believable 14 triumphs complete a 17-year stretch, while Iga Swiatek did akin successful her 4 victories betwixt 2020 and 2024.

So 2 breathtaking singles tournaments this twelvemonth - some going each nan measurement pinch cipher capable to foretell which measurement they would move - were a fitting finish.

Alcaraz facing Jannik Sinner successful nan men’s last was not a surprise. But nan first gathering betwixt nan ATP Tour’s standout brace successful a Grand Slam showpiece ended successful an all-time classic to further substance what is accelerated becoming a must-see rivalry.

That rounded retired a men’s tourney wherever Novak Djokovic showed he tin still person a opportunity astatine nan apical of nan game.

Would you norm nan Serb awesome retired of winning Wimbledon for an eighth clip and matching Roger Federer’s all-time men's grounds for nan tournament? Absolutely not.

But you'd deliberation he would request to debar defending champion Alcaraz and world number 1 Sinner connected nan way.

Throwing successful a genuine British dream pinch Jack Draper - who is now 4th successful nan world - further fuels nan excitement for nan All England Club.

On nan women's side, Sabalenka will stay favourite contempt nan achy quality of her conclusion by Gauff.

Sabalenka's powerful crippled useful connected immoderate aboveground and, though she fell agonisingly short of a first clay-court major, you would still backmost her to triumph a non-hard tribunal major.

But, pinch 8 different winners successful nan past 8 editions, nan women's singles astatine Wimbledon has been unpredictable successful caller years.

Bring it on.

Britain's Draper mightiness person mislaid earlier than expected erstwhile he was beaten by 62nd-ranked Alexander Bublik successful nan past 16 successful Paris, but he has reached a caller profession precocious of 4th successful nan world.

Italy's Lorenzo Musetti moved up to sixth aft reaching nan semi-finals, while American Tommy Paul - up to eighth aft making nan quarter-finals - is nan 3rd man successful nan apical 10 to climb to a caller profession high.

Britain's Cameron Norrie is nan sharpest riser successful nan apical 100, jumping 21 spots to 60 aft reaching nan 4th round.

It ever felt Iga Swiatek's reign arsenic nan 'Queen of Clay' was nether threat going into Roland Garros - and truthful it proved.

The four-time champion's semi-final exit intends she has dropped to seventh successful nan world - her lowest ranking since nan commencement of 2022.

The biggest leap successful nan WTA rankings came, of course, from 22-year-old Boisson.

The French wildcard started her maiden Grand Slam classed 361st and has climbed a whopping 296 spots to a career-high 65th.

Who says nan British can't play connected clay?

Norrie, 29, slipped perilously adjacent to dropping retired of nan apical 100 earlier reaching nan Geneva last and past nan Roland Garros past 16 for nan first time.

Draper reached nan 4th information and Jacob Fearnley precocious to nan 3rd information connected his debut - losing to Norrie - while Katie Boulter and Sonay Kartal some earned their first main-draw wins.

Boulter, Emma Raducanu and Kartal each continued their upward trajectory successful nan world rankings, pinch Kartal now a top-50 subordinate for nan first time.

Doubles brace Neal Skupski and Joe Salisbury continued their advancement arsenic a pairing by reaching nan men's final, while Alfie Hewett was runner-up successful nan wheelchair singles.

Hewett fought backmost from heartbreak, though, to clinch a sixth successive doubles title pinch partner Gordon Reid.

And 16-year-old Hannah Klugman underlined her immense imaginable by becoming nan first Briton to scope nan inferior last successful almost 50 years.

A big of LTA grass-court tournaments person already started successful nan UK.

On Monday, nan WTA arena astatine Queen's - nan first clip that a women's tourney has been held astatine nan westbound London nine since 1973 - returns.

Britain's Boulter, Raducanu and Kartal header nan event, which you tin travel crossed nan BBC.

On nan ATP Tour, nan grass-court plaything kicks disconnected pinch events successful German metropolis Stuttgart and s’Hertogenbosch successful nan Netherlands.

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