June 10
Paire, Dimitrov, Hewitt advance at Queen's Club
Rising Frenchman Benoit Paire and four-time champion Lleyton Hewitt were among Monday's first-round winners at the $900,000 Aegon Championships, a grass-court Wimbledon tune-up.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Rising Frenchman Benoit Paire and four-time champion Lleyton Hewitt were among Monday's first-round winners at the $900,000 Aegon Championships, a grass-court Wimbledon tune-up.

It's nearly mid-June and Roger Federer is still without a title in 2013. Back on grass in one of his favorite tournaments, Federer is confident his best is yet to come.
Rising American Jamie Hampton was an opening-round upset winner, while defending champion Melanie Oudin was sent packing Monday at the $235,000 Aegon Classic, a grass-court Wimbledon tune-up.

Serena Williams thinks her best years may still be ahead of her at the age of 31.

A man who jumped onto the court with a fiery flare spurting white smoke briefly interrupted the French Open final Sunday between Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer.
Rafael Nadal captured an unprecedented eighth French Open title on Sunday with a straight-set win over fellow Spaniard David Ferrer.

Fourth-seeded Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina of Russia won their first Grand Slam title together by defeating defending champions Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci of Italy 7-5, 6-2 in the women's doubles final of the French Open on Sunday.
Well, it should come as no shock that your 2013 French Open champions are Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams.
If Rafael Nadal truly was going to be challenged, if his bid for an unprecedented eighth French Open championship would be slowed even a bit, this might have been the moment.
Great? Undoubtedly. Serena Williams' latest Grand Slam title, at the French Open, confirmed what tennis already knew. But greatest? That is still too early to say.

His words catching in his throat, Toni Nadal called it "really a miracle" that his nephew is back in the French Open final.

Christian Garin of Chile and Belinda Bencic of Switzerland won the boys' and girls' junior French Open titles in straight sets Saturday.

Rafael Nadal pulled out of the Gerry Weber Open on Saturday to rest ahead of Wimbledon.

Ten years ago, Bob and Mike Bryan were still desperate to win a Grand Slam title and were sleeping on the floor of their bargain hotel room. Their lives changed for good when they won their first major championship in 2003 at the French Open.
Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from next week's Gerry Weber Open.
Bob and Mike Bryan are halfway to a calendar year Grand Slam after outlasting the French duo of Michael Llodra and Nicolas Mahut for the men's doubles title at the French Open.
Two hours before her French Open final, Serena Williams practiced on center court, the stands deserted as she whacked one winner after another to the distant sounds of a brass band playing on the plaza.
Seven-time champion Rafael Nadal outlasted world No. 1 Novak Djokovic in an epic five-set semifinal, while David Ferrer landed in his first-ever Grand Slam final with a big victory of his own Friday at the French Open.

For a decade, the French Open has presented more problems for Serena Williams than any of the other Grand Slam tournaments.

If variety is the spice of life, then we should be sick by now of Rafael Nadal, with his seven titles in eight years at the French Open and another waiting for him in Sunday's final. Perhaps tennis and its only Grand Slam tournament played on clay could do with a change, a new champion.