Murray's travails with a new racket
Changing rackets as a tennis player is an unmooring experience.Forget all the cliches about racket as extension of arm, body, self; the fact they're straight in the firing line if something goes…
www.nytimes.comHere’s the latest on Stan Wawrinka and the French Open.
- Wawrinka’s French Open run ended in the first round this year. He lost to Jesper de Jong, and it marked his farewell appearance at Roland Garros as he is retiring at the end of the season.[1][2]
- The match was a four-set defeat (6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4) played in hot conditions at Court Simonne-Mathieu, with Wawrinka receiving an emotional ovation from the Paris crowd afterward.[1]
- Coverage notes the emotional nature of his goodbye and frames this as the end of a two-decade-long relationship with Roland Garros, including his 2015 title on the same surface.[2][1]
- For broader context, Wawrinka is a three-time Grand Slam winner and a former Roland Garros champion who announced his retirement at the season’s end, making this his final French Open appearance after 21 years.[2]
If you’d like, I can pull more detailed match stats from that first-round encounter or provide a quick timeline of Wawrinka’s repeated French Open milestones over the years.