Ten of the 37 Americans who are in the main draw in singles at Roland Garros will play their first matches Sunday, including two matches that are between players from the US. Although TNT is will provide coverage via streaming/cable, in order to have access to all matches you will need an HBO/Max subscription, which can be purchased by the month.
The weather forecast calls for sunshine and temperatures in the low 90s for the first week, unusually warm for this time of year.
Sunday’s Roland Garros first round matches featuring Americans:
Hailey Baptiste[26] v Barbora Krejcikova(CZE)
Katie Volynets v Clara Burel[WC](FRA)
Caty McNally v Ajla Tomljanovic(AUS)
Sofia Kenin v Peyton Stearns
Sloane Stephens[Q] v Sara Bejlek(CZE)
Taylor Fritz[7] v Nishesh Basavareddy[WC]
Michael Zheng[Q] v Dino Prizmic(CRO)
Reilly Opelka v Federico Cina[Q](ITA)
Two Americans, both former collegians, will arrive in Paris as champions, with Learner Tien(USC) and Emma Navarro(Virginia) earning titles today.
Two-time Kalamazoo 18s champion Tien added to his “youngest American” list, with his title today at the
ATP 250 in Geneva Switzerland. The 20-year-old lefthander, seeded No. 4, defeated unseeded Mariano Navone of Argentina 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 in two and a half hours to claim his second ATP title. Tien, who will move to a career-high ranking of 18 and is the No. 18 seed in Paris, is the youngest American to win a title on European clay since his coach Michael Chang won Roland Garros as a 17-year-old in 1989.
For more on Tien’s win, see
this article from the ATP website.
Navarro, the 2021 NCAA singles champion, won the
WTA 500 in Strasbourg France while unseeded, beating top seed Vicky Mboko of Canada 6-0, 5-7, 6-2 in the final. It’s the third WTA title for Navarro, her first since March of last year, and her first on clay. Although it comes too late for seeding in Paris, this result will move her to No. 25 in next week’s WTA rankings, up from 39. For more on Navarro’s win, see
this article from the WTA website.
After the completion of Friday’s rain-delayed quarterfinals, the semifinals were also played today at the women’s
USTA Pro Circuit W50 in Pelham Alabama, with the top two seeds reaching Sunday’s final.
University of Georgia signee Bella Payne made her second consecutive USTA Women’s Pro Circuit semifinal with a 6-3, 6-2 win over No. 6 seed Antonia Vergara Rivera of Chile, but lost to No. 2 seed Madison Brengle 7-6(7), 7-5. Savannah Broadus(Pepperdine) defeated Amelia Honer(UC-Santa Barbara 6-7(1), 7-5, 6-4, in a match that spanned two days and over three hours. Broadus then lost to top seed Katrina Scott(Tennessee) 6-4, 3-6, 6-2.
Top seeds Alicia Herrero Linana(Baylor) of Spain and Anna Rogers(NC State) won the doubles title, beating the wild card team of Capucine Jauffret and Kaitlyn Carnicella(Auburn, South Carolina) 6-2, 6-1 in the final.
The singles finals are set at the
Trofeo Bonfiglio ITF J500 in Milan, with the winner of the last two J500s facing off in the boys final. No. 3 seed Thilo Behrmann of Austria, who won April’s J500 in Cairo, will play No. 2 seed Jamie Mackenzie of Germany, who won the J500 in Offenbach two weeks ago. Behrmann defeated unseeded Jack Secord 6-3, 3-6, 7-6(5), while Mackenzie beat wild card Filippo Alfano of Italy 7-6(3), 6-3. The 18-year-olds played two years ago at a J100, with Mackenzie winning three sets.
Orange Bowl champion Xinran Sun of China, seeded No. 3, defeated No. 2 seed Jana Kovackova of Czechia 6-4, 6-4 and will face No. 7 seed Mariia Makarova of Russia, who beat compatriot Felitsata Dorofeeva-Rybas 6-2, 7-6(1). The 16-year-old Makarova and 15-year-old Sun have not played before.
The unseeded Brazilian team of Luis Guto Miguel and Leonardo Storck Franca won the boys doubles title, beating Secord and Puerto Rico’s Yannik Alvarez, the No. 8 seeds, 6-3, 6-1 in the final.
No. 3 seeds Charo Esquiva Banuls of Spain and Nauhany Leme Da Silva of Brazil took the girls doubles title, beating top seeds Anastasija Cvetkovic of Serbia and Sol Ailin Larraya Guidi of Argentina 6-4, 6-4.
Live streaming is
here; live scoring is
here.
For the second time in three years Nova Southeastern has claimed the
women’s NCAA Division II team championship, with the No. 3 seeds defeating No. 4 seeds Catawba 4-1 for the title in Surprise Arizona. Nova Southeastern lost the doubles point, as they did in the two teams’ previous meeting in February, but rebounded in singles. Catawba’s only two losses this season were to Nova Southeastern. The box score can be found
here.
In the
Division II men’s semifinals today, top seed Barry beat No. 5 seed Catawba 4-0, but there will be no rematch of February’s ITA Team Indoor Championships in Sunday’s final, with No. 6 seed Flagler ousting No. 2 seed West Florida 4-2. The final will be streamed on
ncaa.com.
