Jo-Wilfried Tsonga treated the home crowd with a comeback win over Japanese fifth seed Kei Nishikori and reached the semifinals at Roland Garros here on Tuesday.
Tournament director Gilbert Ysern of the French Open told a press conference late on Tuesday that one person was injured by the metal panel falling off a giant TV screen above Court Philippe Chatrier during a match.
Retired Chinese tennis star Li Na posted a photo of her newborn baby girl's foot on her Sina Weibo and Twitter account early on Wednesday. The baby is called Alisa.
Brazilian football great Pele said he was pleased Tuesday's friendly between the Cuban national team and his former club the New York Cosmos might help foster better relations between the United States and Cuba, which have embarked on detente.
Vietnamese marksman Hoang Xuan Vinh is placed second in the latest men's 50m pistol world rankings by the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF), after South Korea's Jin Jongoh, local newspaper Vietnam News reported Monday.
A cold chill circulated around Maria Sharapova as the title holder was frozen out of the French Open on Monday but there was no stopping Novak Djokovic and Rafa Nadal from blazing a trail towards a scorching showdown.
Guangzhou Evergrande defeated Guizhou Renhe 3-0 at home in the twelfth round of 2015 Chinese Super League (CSL) on Sunday.
Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga dismissed Czech star Tomas Berdych to delight the local spectators who came to Roland Garros and just found all play halted for more than two hours by rain on Sunday.
Kei Nishikori reached a landmark by qualifying for the French Open quarter-finals with a 6-3 6-4 6-2 win over unseeded Russian Teymuraz Gabashvili on Sunday but may just be getting started.
Wolfsburg lifted the club's first ever German Cup on Saturday while Chinese footballer Zhang Xizhe still waits for his debut in the Bundesliga.
Su Bingtian finishes third in 9.99 seconds, behind American Tyson Gay in 9.88 and Mike Rodgers in 9.90 in Eugene Grand Prix in US.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter came out fighting on Saturday as he began his fifth term in charge of soccer's governing body.
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