The Japanese men’s contingent has been eliminated from the 2026 Roland Garros main draw. No one making it to the main draw in the Grand Slam is the first time it happened in 16 years since the 2010 AO. No Nishioka, Nishikori… Sakamoto, Uchida, Noguchi all lost in qualies.
The controversial argument between Sakamoto and Pedro Martínez in the Roland Garros qualifying match resulted in the victorious Spaniard asking if the ten years younger Rei wanted to continue the discussion off the court.
Carlos Alcaraz will skip Roland Garros and Wimbledon with the alleged wrist injury. Why doesn’t he just numb it like Rafa did to his foot at AO?
Rafa Nadal has said he has spoken about Alcaraz’s injury and says they’ve both talked between themselves but he won’t say anything more about their conversation. “What we talked about will stay between us.” So what is the secret that must remain hidden?
Novak Djokovic’s former Davis Cup colleague and friend Victor Troicki has joined his coaching team at Roland Garros.
David Goffin, Bianca Andreescu, Karolina Pliskova, Grigor Dimitrov, are out at RG qualies.
Michael Zheng can make his second Grand Slam main draw in a row if he can beat Jesper De Jong tomorrow.
Artwork by Joel Blanc.
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