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Vekic beat Emma Raducanu 6-0, 7-6(6) to win the HSBC Championships at Queen's Club.

She entered the draw only as a lucky loser after failing qualifying, becoming just the seventh lucky loser to win a WTA Tour title.

Vekic, ranked No. 76, will rise to approximately No. 32 in the rankings following the win.

It is her first WTA 500 title and first title since 2023, and the first women's singles crown by a Croatian at Queen's.

Raducanu reached her second final of 2026, showing strong form ahead of Wimbledon.

Zverev defeated Flavio Cobolli 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-1 in the men's final at Roland-Garros.

It was his first major title at his fourth Grand Slam final, ending a run of three runner-up finishes.

He became the first German man to win a Grand Slam singles title since Boris Becker at the 1996 Australian Open.

He was the first player other than Jannik Sinner or Carlos Alcaraz to win a Slam since 2023.

Cobolli, ranked No. 10, made his top-10 debut by reaching the final; Alcaraz (wrist) and Sinner (early exit) were both absent or eliminated early.

Andreeva beat qualifier Maja Chwalińska 6-3, 6-2 in straight sets to win the French Open women's singles crown.

At 19, she became the youngest woman to win the Coupe Suzanne Lenglen since Monica Seles in 1992.

She is the fourth Russian woman to win Roland-Garros, following Myskina, Kuznetsova, and Sharapova.

Chwalińska reached the final as a qualifier ranked No. 114, earning a Wimbledon wild card as a result.

No former major winners reached the semifinals on either the men's or women's side at the 2026 French Open.

Andreeva defeated Maja Chwalińska 6-3, 6-3 in straight sets in the women's final at Roland-Garros.

At 19, she became the youngest French Open women's singles champion since Iga Świątek in 2020.

She was the first player born after 2005 to reach a Grand Slam singles final, men's or women's.

Finalist Chwalińska entered as world No. 114, coming through qualifying, and had never previously gone beyond the second round of a major.

Andreeva's win made her the sixth consecutive different player to win a women's Grand Slam title, underscoring the era's parity.

Roland-Garros confirmed it would keep human line judges for 2026, the only Grand Slam not using electronic line calling.

The Australian Open, US Open and Wimbledon have all transitioned fully to electronic line-calling systems.

French Open director Amélie Mauresmo cited clay-surface reliability issues, saying the machine is not 100 percent reliable on clay.

A controversial human call during Casper Ruud's fourth-round loss to João Fonseca reignited the debate mid-tournament.

Mauresmo left the door open to ELC review for 2027, saying the federation would reassess after the tournament.

Stan Wawrinka made his 21st and final Roland-Garros appearance, losing in the first round to Jesper de Jong on 25 May.

Tournament organisers held an on-court tribute for Wawrinka, including a video and messages from Federer, Nadal and Djokovic.

Gaël Monfils also made his farewell French Open appearance, losing in the first round to Hugo Gaston before his own tribute.

On 21 May, Monfils headlined a 'Gael and Friends' exhibition at Court Philippe-Chatrier with Sinner, Djokovic, Osaka and others.

Proceeds from the exhibition were donated to charitable organisations including the FFT's Terre d'Impact foundation.

Alcaraz confirmed via Instagram he is pulling out of Queen's Club and Wimbledon due to ongoing right wrist tenosynovitis.

The injury was first sustained during a first-round win at the Barcelona Open on 14 April.

He had already withdrawn from the French Open, missing consecutive clay and grass majors for the first time in his career.

Alcaraz is the two-time defending Wimbledon champion (2023, 2024) and was runner-up in 2025.

He will target a return for the US hard-court swing, including his US Open title defence.

Nishikori, 36, announced via social media on 30 April that he will retire from professional tennis at the end of the 2026 season.

He is Japan's highest-ranked male player in history, reaching a career-high of No. 4 in March 2015.

He was the first Asian man to reach a Grand Slam singles final, at the 2014 US Open, where he upset Djokovic in the semi-finals.

Nishikori won 12 ATP Tour singles titles and earned a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics by defeating Rafael Nadal.

Naomi Osaka paid tribute, calling him inspirational; Nishikori cited accumulated injuries as a key reason for his decision.