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Agassi on Sinner’s collapse: “There’s a difference between fitness and being prepared...It’s got to be some kind of hydration issue...I know he's the best player on the planet, but I also know there’s no reason for him to run into a wall at 1:45.”

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Maja Chwalinska leaves us breathless. A Polish dynamo not named Iga dazzles us @rolandgarros with her 5' 5" all-court brilliance. https://t.co/2rOfip4KAP

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Ukrainian Marta Kostyok had it all going. 17 match win streak, a 2-0 h2h vs. her foe Andreeva & motivation/A Russian missle struck 100 metres from her family home last week/But Marta had nothing, as Mirra, the composed, gifted Russian teen glided her way to finals w 6-1, 6-3 win

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The Curse of Carlos Strikes Again. Russian Diana Shnaider punches No. 1 Sabalenka in the gut as the craziest Slam again shocks again. https://t.co/322P8mJjnF via @InsideTennis

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FRENCH COLLAPSE-TIGER LADY GOES OUT WITH A BAGEL: In Parisian winds Sabalenka again falls. Russian Shnaider wins 10 games to win 3-6,7-5,6-0 /Will face Polish qualifier Chwalinska in semis/After Sinner-like collapse@rolandgarros in craziest Slam in history.

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Zverev is greatest tennis player never to win a major
Other sports-my nominees
NFL–Dan Marino/Barry Sanders
MLB–Ted Williams/Ty Cobb
NBA–Karl Malone/Elgin Baylor/Charles Barkley
NHL– Marcel Dionne
Golf-Colin Montgomerie
WTA-Pam Shriver/Helena Suková/Aga Radwańska
Who tops ur list

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Mensik beat Fonseca in straight sets despite a painful glute injury. But please don't call it a come-from-behind win. @rolandgarros

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Osaka said after losses like today she use to lock herself in a room/Now she realizes "hitting a ball doesn't really matter on Earth,kind of/I've reached enlightenment in a healthy way/My happiest moments r seeing my daughter/I'm thankful 4 all the spectacular memories I've made"

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McEnroe after captivating Tiafoe-Arnaldi marathon:

"I've watched thousands of matches over the years, and this is one of them where I'm proud to say that I used to be a professional tennis player.

#BigFoe–Big Heartache @rolandgarros

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Sliding, dashing, retrieving, lobbing – Matteo Arnaldi played some of the most inspired defense you'll ever see to score 5:26 hour comeback win over Tiafoe.

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PASS THE PASTA. No Sinner, no Musseti, no problem. 3 Italians - Berretini, Arnaldi, Cobolli – to RG quarters for first time.

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In 3rd round, Tiafoe lost his racket/Today he loses 5:26 match though he was up 5-2, 30-0 in the 4th. Matteo Arnaldi stormed back. He'll next play fellow Italian Matteo Berrettini in the Battle of the Matteos. No American left at RG. Last US man to reach RG semis – Agassi in 1999

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Serena and the Art of the Comeback
Stop the presses. Sound the trumpets.
The GOAT is bacWilliams' return stirs the imagination and recalls many of the greatest comeback stories in tennis history. Our story.
https://t.co/ZwDcj7qpZx via @InsideTennis

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INSIDE TENNIS' INTERVIEW WITH FONSECA: Joao on meditation, maturity, Federer, the Big 2 & Brazil's sporting culture.
https://t.co/FW2bHYCCAn

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Botched line call at set point in the Ruud-Fonseca match may haunt Paris & Ruud. It would"ve given Casper the 2nd set.
Was it decisive? We'll never know.
Will RG adapt electronic scoring? We'll see.

But for sure in this yr. of @RolandGarros crazy, it adds to the helter skelter

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Fonseca beats two of the best clay courters of our era, Djokovic & Ruud to reach quarters @RolandGarros. Czech Mensik next.

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Paris ritual umps of checking clay-court marks is iconic, singular tradition that defies the machine/The botched called today brings to mind 2004 US Open when Serena got 4 lousy calls vs. Capriati/The USTA soon apologized. 2 years later Hawk-Eye arrived./Will this be a reckoning

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Ruud led 8-7 in 2nd-set tiebreak & Fonseca's forehand was called out by a fan, not line judge. Ump checks mark & calls it good. Hawkeye calls it out. Courier's says, "Give me electronic line calling." Instead of Casper taking the set, Fonseca came back to win set.

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We've an all-Ukrainian quarterfinal
What r the chances of:
All-Matteo quarter–Berrettini/Arnaldi
All-American semi–Tiafoe/Svajda
All-teen final–Fonseca/Jodar
All-So. American final–Fonseca/Cerúndolo
France's 1st women's champ since 2000
Repeat US women's champ-Keys
None of above

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Rome champ Elina Svitolina just beat Belinda Bencic.

Madrid winner Marta Kostyuk just drubbed four-time Roland Garros champion Iga Swiatek.

Paris now has an all-Ukrainian quarterfinal: Svitolina vs. Kostyuk.