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Canada's Alexis Galarneau reacts during his match against France's Arthur Rinderknech during first round tennis action at the National Bank Open in Toronto on Monday, July 28, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

Canada’s Galarneau moves on to third round of French Open qualifying

The Canadian Press 2 minute read Wednesday, May. 20, 2026

PARIS - Canada's Alexis Galarneau is on the cusp of his first French Open main-draw appearance after a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 win over Brazil's Pedro Boscardin Dias on Wednesday in the second round of qualifying.

Galarneau advanced despite facing 17 break points. He persevered to save 15 of them, while breaking Boscardin Dias three times on seven chances.

The 27-year-old from Laval, Que., who was eliminated in the first round of the last two French Open qualifying tournaments, will face Italy's Federico Cina on Thursday for a spot in the main draw.

Galarneau was the only Canadian to advance to the final round of qualifying Wednesday after Liam Draxl and Bianca Andreescu lost their second-round matches.

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Canada's Felix Auger Aliassime returns the ball to Argentina's Mariano Navone during their match at the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Auger-Aliassime upset by Kovacevic in second round of Hamburg Open

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Auger-Aliassime upset by Kovacevic in second round of Hamburg Open

The Canadian Press 1 minute read Wednesday, May. 20, 2026

HAMBURG - Félix Auger-Aliassime's chance to tune up for the upcoming French Open came to an end Wednesday with a 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 loss to American lucky loser Aleksandar Kovacevic in second-round action at the Hamburg Open.

Montreal's Auger-Aliassime, seeded first at the ATP 500 clay-court event, had a 4-1 lead in the deciding set before Kovacevic mounted an improbable comeback.

Auger-Aliassime had won his previous two matches against Kovacevic.

Kovacevic, who was initially eliminated in qualifying before getting a main-draw spot when Zizou Bergs withdrew, is the first American to reach the Hamburg quarterfinals since Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras in 1995.

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Wednesday, May. 20, 2026

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Victoria Mboko, of Canada, returns a shot against Aryna Sabalenka, of Belarus, during a quarterfinal match at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament, Thursday, March 12, 2026, in Indian Wells, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Mboko, Fernandez set to meet in all-Canadian quarterfinal at Strasbourg International

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Mboko, Fernandez set to meet in all-Canadian quarterfinal at Strasbourg International

The Canadian Press 1 minute read Tuesday, May. 19, 2026

STRASBOURG - Victoria Mboko and Leylah Fernandez will meet in an all-Canadian quarterfinal at the Strasbourg International tennis tournament.

Mboko, the top seed at the WTA 500 clay-court event, advanced with a 6-4, 6-3 win over 2025 French Open semifinalist Lois Boisson.

Earlier, seventh-seed Fernandez defeated Poland's Magdalena Frech 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.

Thursday's quarterfinal will mark the second meeting between the 19-year-old Mboko, from Burlington, Ont., and 23-year-old Fernandez of Laval, Que.

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Tuesday, May. 19, 2026

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Canada's Felix Auger Aliassime returns the ball to Argentina's Mariano Navone during their match at the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Auger-Aliassime rides dominant second set to win over Kopriva at Hamburg Open

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Auger-Aliassime rides dominant second set to win over Kopriva at Hamburg Open

The Canadian Press 1 minute read Tuesday, May. 19, 2026

HAMBURG - Top-seeded Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the second round of the Hamburg Open with a 7-5, 6-1 win over Czechia's Vit Kopriva on Tuesday.

The 25-year-old from Montreal took the competitive first set when he scored the first break of the match in the final game.

Auger-Aliassime then dominated the second set, scoring breaks in the second and fourth games en route to a 5-0 lead.

After Kopriva held serve, Auger-Aliassime opened the decisive game with his eighth ace of the match before wrapping up the victory in one hour 25 minutes.

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Tuesday, May. 19, 2026

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FILE - Spain's Carlos Alcaraz reacts during the final of the French Open tennis tournament against Italy's Jannik Sinner, Sunday, June 8, 2025, in Paris. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

Carlos Alcaraz pulls out of Wimbledon because of wrist injury

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Carlos Alcaraz pulls out of Wimbledon because of wrist injury

The Associated Press 2 minute read Tuesday, May. 19, 2026

LONDON (AP) — Two-time Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz on Tuesday said he is pulling out of the grass-court Grand Slam event next month because of his lingering wrist injury.

Alcaraz injured his right wrist at the Barcelona Open last month and had already withdrawn from the the French Open that starts this weekend. He won the clay-court tournament the last two years.

"My recovery is going well and I’m feeling much better,” Alcaraz posted on his social media accounts, “but unfortunately I’m still not ready to compete.”

Alcaraz started the year by winning the Australian Open to become the youngest man ever to win all four major titles in tennis.

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Tuesday, May. 19, 2026

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Jannik Sinner, of Italy, returns the ball to Casper Ruud, of Norway, during the final match at the Italian Open tennis tournament, in Rome, Sunday, May 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Sinner becomes 1st Italian man to win Italian Open in 50 years and matches Djokovic’s Masters sweep

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Sinner becomes 1st Italian man to win Italian Open in 50 years and matches Djokovic’s Masters sweep

Andrew Dampf, The Associated Press 2 minute read Sunday, May. 17, 2026

ROME (AP) — Jannik Sinner is the first Italian man to win the Italian Open since Adriano Panatta 50 years ago.

The top-ranked Sinner’s 6-4, 6-4 victory over Casper Ruud in Sunday’s final on the red clay of the Foro Italico also made him only the second man after Novak Djokovic to win all nine Masters 1000 events — the biggest tournaments outside the Grand Slams.

Djokovic completed the career set in 2018 in Cincinnati at age 31 — and then went on to win each event at least twice. Sinner is 24, and with his only real rival, Carlos Alcaraz, currently sidelined due to a right wrist injury, seemingly nobody can beat him.

Sinner extended his winning streak to 29 matches. He hasn’t lost since getting beat by Jakub Mensik in the Qatar Open quarterfinals on Feb. 19. And he’s now 17-0 on clay this year entering the French Open, which starts next Sunday.

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Sunday, May. 17, 2026

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Canada's Victoria Mboko celebrates beating New Zealand's Lulu Sun during their first round match of the French Tennis Open, at the Roland-Garros stadium, in Paris, Sunday May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Canada’s struggling tennis stars look to tame clay surface at French Open

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Canada’s struggling tennis stars look to tame clay surface at French Open

Stephanie Myles, The Canadian Press 5 minute read Friday, May. 22, 2026

PARIS - Victoria Mboko is the only Canadian player coming into the French Open with any kind of momentum.

And even then, the 19-year-old only rounded into form this week at a tune-up tournament in Strasbourg, where she plays the final on Saturday.

For the rest – three in the men’s singles along with Leylah Fernandez on the women’s side – it’s a mixed bag of injuries, bad luck and the natural ebbs and flows of a long, gruelling season.

And the surface: the red clay has been both kind and cruel to the Canadians in the past.

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Friday, May. 22, 2026

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Canada's Victoria Mboko returns to Czech Republic's Karolina Muchova during the Qatar Open tennis final in Doha, Qatar, on Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Sayed)

Mboko into singles final, Dabrowski advances to doubles final at Strasbourg

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Mboko into singles final, Dabrowski advances to doubles final at Strasbourg

The Canadian Press 3 minute read Friday, May. 22, 2026

STRASBOURG - Canadian teen tennis star Victoria Mboko will play for her third WTA Tour title after defeating Romania's Jaqueline Cristian 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-2 in Friday's semifinals at the Strasbourg International.

Mboko, the top seed in Strasbourg, clinched the win at the WTA 500 clay-court event with a third set in which she broke Cristian twice on three chances and saved both break points she faced.

"It was a battle," Mboko said. "(Cristian) made it really physical.

"She really pushed me to my limits today, and I feel like my finish got better today."

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Friday, May. 22, 2026

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Victoria Mboko, of Canada, returns a shot against Aryna Sabalenka, of Belarus, during a quarterfinal match at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament, Thursday, March 12, 2026, in Indian Wells, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Mboko defeats fellow Canadian Fernandez in French Open tune-up tournament

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Mboko defeats fellow Canadian Fernandez in French Open tune-up tournament

The Canadian Press 2 minute read Thursday, May. 21, 2026

STRASBOURG - Top seed Victoria Mboko cruised to a 6-4, 6-4 win over fellow Canadian Leylah Fernandez in quarterfinal action Thursday at the Strasbourg International tennis tournament.

The 19-year-old Mboko, from Burlington, Ont., rode a strong return game to the straight-sets win over the seventh-seeded opponent from Laval, Que.

Fernandez, 24, won just 52.8 per cent of total service points and faced 11 break points, saving seven of them.

Mboko was good on 82 per cent of first-serve points and was broken twice on three chances.

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Thursday, May. 21, 2026

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Canada's Alexis Galarneau reacts during his match against France's Arthur Rinderknech during first round tennis action at the National Bank Open in Toronto on Monday, July 28, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

Canada’s Galarneau comes up short in French Open qualification bid

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Canada’s Galarneau comes up short in French Open qualification bid

The Canadian Press 2 minute read Thursday, May. 21, 2026

PARIS - Canada's Alexis Galarneau fell just short of clinching his first Grand Slam main draw berth after a 5-7, 6-2, 7-5 loss to Italy's Federico Cina in the third round of qualifying Thursday

The 19-year-old Cina converted five break points to Galarneau's three and advanced to his first Grand Slam main draw.

The 27-year-old Galarneau, from Laval, Que., was eliminated in the first round of qualifying in the previous two years at Roland Garros. He was only Canadian to advance to the third round of qualifying this year.

The five Canadians who had already qualified for the clay court Grand Slam were given their first-round assignments in Thursday's draw.

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Thursday, May. 21, 2026

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United States' Coco Gauff reacts as she plays against Ukraine's Elina Svitolina during their women's final match at the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome, Saturday, May 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Sinner opens French Open against wild card as he chases a career Grand Slam

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Sinner opens French Open against wild card as he chases a career Grand Slam

Samuel Petrequin, The Associated Press 5 minute read Thursday, May. 21, 2026

PARIS (AP) — Jannik Sinner won't have the crowd on his side when he starts his quest for a career Grand Slam at the French Open this weekend.

Sinner was on Thursday drawn a French opponent in the first round — Clement Tabur, ranked a career-high 165th. Tabur received the wild card vacated by former champion Stan Wawrinka, who gained a late automatic entry.

With two-time reigning champion Carlos Alcaraz out injured, Sinner is the overwhelming men's favorite on the red clay of Roland Garros.

The Italian is unbeaten in three months. He's won 29 straight matches and dropped just three sets. The French Open is the only major Sinner hasn’t won. Sinner had three match points in last year's final but Alcaraz prevailed in an epic match.

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Thursday, May. 21, 2026

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Victoria Mboko, of Canada, hits a return to Karolina Muchova, of the Czech Republic, during a quarterfinal match at the Miami Open tennis tournament, in Miami Gardens, Fla., Tuesday, March 24, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Jim Rassol

Mboko, Dabrowski earn mixed results at Strasbourg International tennis tournament

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Mboko, Dabrowski earn mixed results at Strasbourg International tennis tournament

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STRASBOURG - Victoria Mboko and Gabriela Dabrowski provided Canada with mixed results Saturday at the Strasbourg International tennis tournament.

Mboko, 19, of Mississauga, Ont., dropped a 6-0, 5-7, 6-2 decision to American Emily Navarro in the singles final. But Dabrowski, of Ottawa, and Brazilian partner Luisa Stefani dispatched Norway's Ulrikke Eikeri and American Quinn Gleason 7-5, 6-4 to secure their second doubles crown of the season.

The top-seeded Mboko fired four aces but also had five double faults in her quest for a third WTA title. Navarro had no aces and four double faults in the match but registered seven breaks in 21 opportunities.

Mboko had three breaks in 10 chances but Navarro won 10 services games, compared to six for the Canadian.

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Canada's Gabriel Diallo returns to Brazil's Matheus Pucinelli de Almeida during the second set of a Davis Cup Qualifiers tennis singles match in Vancouver, on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns

Canada’s Gabriel Diallo retires due to injury in opening match at French Open

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Canada’s Gabriel Diallo retires due to injury in opening match at French Open

The Canadian Press 1 minute read 10:42 AM CDT

PARIS - Gabriel Diallo is out of the French Open.

The Montreal native retired due to injury from his opening-round match against Australian James Duckworth on Sunday at the tennis Grand Slam event. Duckworth was leading 6-3, 4-1.

Diallo went without an ace and break-point opportunity before exiting the match.

Duckworth had three aces and converted on three of his five break-point chances.

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Canada's Felix Auger Aliassime sits as he reacts during the match against Argentina's Mariano Navone at the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Auger-Aliassime hampered by leg injury, ousted in Italian Open’s second round

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Auger-Aliassime hampered by leg injury, ousted in Italian Open’s second round

The Canadian Press 1 minute read Saturday, May. 9, 2026

ROME -  

An uncomfortable Félix Auger-Aliassime was upset in the second round of Italian Open men's singles Saturday.

The 25-year-old from Montreal, who was the fourth seed in the tournament, was ousted by unseeded Mariano Navone of Argentina 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5).

Auger-Aliassime dealt with a leg issue in the second set and struggled to even walk at times during the second-set tiebreak. 

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Saturday, May. 9, 2026

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FILE -- Leylah Fernandez of Canada plays a forehand return to Janice Tjen of Indonesia during their first round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Canada’s Leylah Fernandez exits Italian Open after three-set loss to Masarova

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Canada’s Leylah Fernandez exits Italian Open after three-set loss to Masarova

The Canadian Press 2 minute read Friday, May. 8, 2026

ROME - Leylah Fernandez was upset by world No. 160 Rebeka Masarova of Switzerland 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the round of 64 at the Italian Open on Friday.

The Laval, Que., native took the opening set before Masarova answered in the second and dominated on serve in the third, winning 95 per cent of her first-serve points while not allowing Fernandez a break-point chance in the final set.

Leylah Fernandez, ranked 23rd in the world and seeded 25th in Rome, finished with one ace and five double faults.

Masarova converted five of 10 break-point chances in the two-hour, 23-minute clay-court match.

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Friday, May. 8, 2026

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Bianca Andreescu, of Canada, plays a shot to Barbora Krejcikova, of the Czech Republic, during their first round match at the National Bank Open tennis tournament in Montreal, Sunday, July 27, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

Canadians Andreescu, Shapovalov ousted from Italian Open clay-court tournament

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Canadians Andreescu, Shapovalov ousted from Italian Open clay-court tournament

The Canadian Press 2 minute read Thursday, May. 7, 2026

ROME - Canadians Bianca Andreescu and Denis Shapovalov were eliminated from the Italian Open clay-court tournament on Thursday.

Andreescu was defeated 6-4, 6-1 by 12th seed Belinda Bencic of Switzerland in the women's second round, while Shapovalov dropped his men's opening-round match 6-4, 6-2 to Argentina's Mariano Navone.

Bencic converted four of her six breaks in a dominant second set to wrap up the match in one hour 17 minutes.

Andreescu, of Mississauga, Ont., struggled with her serve and committed seven double-faults.

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Thursday, May. 7, 2026

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