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If Rafael Nadal is going to win Wimbledon for a third time, he'll have to do it the hard way.

French Open finalist David Ferrer lost his first-round match Tuesday at the Topshelf Open, a grass-court tournament held the week before Wimbledon.

Tennis doesn't have a lot of doping cases because it doesn't do a lot of testing. But that's only part of the problem facing a sport in which the players are more powerful than ever and able to demand pay hikes, such as the 40 percent raise that will go into effect at Wimbledon.

The French Open is an annual tennis tournament held in Paris every year since 1891. The French Open is the second of the four tennis Grand Slam events, and the only one currently played on clay. The Open hosts championship tournaments for men's and w...

Hantuchova beats Schiavone in Birmingham

Serena and Beyonce stage a public lovefest, LeBron James dons a cape, and Chad Johnson pays for a swat. Things got giddy this week in The Buzz That Was.

Only one person has ever won the Golden Slam in a single calendar year -- and that is birthday girl Steffi Graf. Today, she celebrates her 44th, but 25 years ago, in 1988, she was busy hoisting up trophies at the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbled...

Up a set in the women's final at Roland Garros, at 0-1 in the second, Serena Williams hit a hard serve down the T. Maria Sharapova whaled a backhand deep into the corner, the kind of return that only one of the best returners in the game can hit, the...

So there we all were, seated in Court Philippe Chatrier, already in a mild state of alert. Would David Ferrer figure out a way to mount a real challenge to Rafael Nadal, after losing to him 16 consecutive times on clay? Would the overcast sky have me...

In case you were busy accidentally watching a performance art piece in which the notion of sports was approached from many perspectives without any sports actually happening, here's what you missed in sports last weekend: The Miami Heat bounced ...

Eight-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal drops from No. 4 to No. 5 in the ATP rankings this week, swapping places with David Ferrer, the man he beat in the Roland Garros final.

• Greeny and Golic can't believe that David Ferrer moved ahead of Rafael Nadal in the ATP rankings even though Nadal beat Ferrer in the final of the French Open. Joaquin wonders if anything in the world of sports makes less sense than this. Lis...

What did Rafael Nadal prove by winning his eighth French Open? Everything and nothing at the same time.

From Serena's dominance to the strong showing of other U.S. players, here are 10 takeaways from the women's draw in Paris.

Scenes from Roland Garros

From Rafael Nadal's improbable shot between his legs, to Serena Williams' blistering serves to Venus Williams' sad exit, the French Open produced memories for a lifetime.