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TOURNAMENTS: ROME (ATP Masters 1000 and WTA 1000, clay) PARIS (WTA 125, clay) KARLSRUHE (WTA 125, clay)
TOURNAMENTS: GENEVA (ATP 250, clay) LYON (ATP 250, clay) STRASBOURG (WTA 250, clay) RABAT (WTA 250, clay)
TOURNAMENT: FRENCH OPEN (Grand Slam, clay)
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Wimbledon entries close today
John Newcombe’s 78th birthday
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Johanna Konta’s 31st birthday
Since 2004 only four men have won this week’s ATP Masters 1000 title in Rome. Rafael Nadal has won it 10 times and Novak Djokovic five times. Andy Murray (in 2016) and Alexander Zverev (in 2017) have both won the tournament once. Over the same period 11 different women have claimed the Rome title, with Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova both winning it three times. Nadal and Iga Swiatek are the current champions
This week’s tournament in Strasbourg was won last year by Barbora Krejcikova, who went on to win the French Open a fortnight later. Although the list of former Strasbourg champions includes the likes of Steffi Graf, Lindsay Davenport, Maria Sharapova and Jana Novotna, Krejcikova is the only winner who went on to triumph at Roland Garros in the same year
The last eight French Opens have produced eight different women’s singles champions, with the last six titles all won by players claiming their first Grand Slam singles trophy: Garbine Muguruza, Jelena Ostapenko, Simona Halep, Ashleigh Barty, Iga Swiatek and Barbora Krejcikova
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The Geneva Open is staged at the oldest and largest tennis club in Switzerland, the Tennis
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Club de Geneve at the Parc des Eaux-Vives. Casper Ruud won the title on his debut last year, beating Denis Shapovalov in the final
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Stan Wawrinka, the 2015 champion, is set to make his first appearance at the French Open for two years. The 36-year-old Swiss has been out with a foot injury since last March and recently dropped out of the world’s top 200. Wawrinka beat both Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic to win the title in 2015. He lost to Rafael Nadal in the 2017 final
Andy Murray celebrates his 35th birthday today. The former world No 1 has grown accustomed over the years to spending his birthday at tournaments in cities like Hamburg, Madrid or Rome, but has decided this year to skip the clay-court season in order to focus on his preparations for grass
The French Open, which starts today, is the only
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Grand Slam event which begins on a Sunday. Today is also Novak Djokovic’s 35th birthday
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