PARIS — Two days after being encouraged by his clay-court game — and with good reason — Daniil Medvedev, the world’s No. 2 men’s singles player, was bounced out of the French Open on Monday in just 1 hour 45 minutes. There were some boos as Medvedev, his bag slung over his shoulder, trudged off […]

PARIS — The most prominent feature of the French Open is that this Grand Slam tournament takes place on the rusty red clay of Roland Garros, a beloved feature that is as much a part of local culture and tradition as the bouquinistes that sell art and used books along the Seine. And yet, as […]

PARIS — It is a new season and a different surface, but Leylah Fernandez, still tenacious and still a teenager, is back in the deep end of another Grand Slam tournament. She needed all of her resourcefulness and upbeat energy on this unseasonably chilly Sunday afternoon at Roland Garros. Amanda Anisimova, a 20-year-old American seeded […]

Gaby Dabrowski is the sixth-best doubles player in women’s professional tennis. She has been an Australian and French Open mixed doubles champion, and she reached the final in women’s doubles at Wimbledon in 2019. She has won 11 career WTA titles and competed for Canada in the 2016 Rio Olympics. But Dabrowski has no endorsement […]

Deep down, Real Madrid does not believe in magic. Or, rather, it does not only believe in magic. It might have spent much of the last three months apparently touched by some golden light, its run to the Champions League final a dream of stirring comebacks and insurmountable odds and impossible triumphs. Those triumphs, against […]

BOSTON — In a playoff series that had long ago lost any semblance of order or predictability, Jimmy Butler of the Miami Heat on Friday night emerged as a rare source of stability, and perhaps the only one. He rose over flat-footed defenders for 3-pointers. He negotiated rush-hour traffic for layups. He drew fouls and […]

Seth Jarvis, the Carolina Hurricanes’ rookie center, bore the swollen aspect of a playoff hockey player on Friday. With the game in the balance Thursday night and the Rangers forward Ryan Strome in a terrific position to score, Jarvis dove to block the puck, putting his face in front of Strome’s stick. He hoped it […]

For decades, May in motorsports in the United States focused on one event: the Indianapolis 500, one of America’s most storied sporting traditions and the crown jewel of the North America-based IndyCar racing series. But that usual script flipped this year as Formula 1 kicked off the month with its inaugural Miami Grand Prix, an […]

WASHINGTON — Two former F.B.I. agents accused of bungling the bureau’s investigation of Lawrence G. Nassar, the former doctor for U.S.A. Gymnastics who was convicted on state sex abuse and federal child pornography charges, will not be prosecuted, the Justice Department said on Thursday. The decision ends a review the department initiated in October, months […]

The Carolina Hurricanes have not lost a home game in this year’s N.H.L. playoffs, so naturally their success in their own arena was a main topic of conversation when the Rangers met with reporters before their flight to North Carolina on Wednesday afternoon. But contained in all the discussion about travel, loud fans and tactical […]