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Ben Rothenberg

Washington, D.C.

Freelance Writer at The New York Times

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  • 3 days ago | benrothenberg.com | Ben Rothenberg

    PARIS, France — After writing about it early in the tournament, I thought it was the right time to close the loop on the talk of scheduling at Roland Garros. Now that the order of play has been released for Day 11, which is the last day on which French Open women’s and men’s singles matches are held on the same day, we have the full set of data from this year to complete a five-year sample of striking scheduling patterns here.

  • 4 days ago | benrothenberg.com | Ben Rothenberg

    PARIS, France — With Iga Swiatek into the quarterfinals and still in hot pursuit of a historic fourth consecutive French Open title—which would be the first ever four-peat here on the women’s side in the Open Era, and the first overall since Suzanne Lenglen way back in 1923—I could think of no better person to interview for Bounces subscribers than the veteran coach whom Swiatek chose to help her reach her lofty ambitions: Wim Fissette.

  • 5 days ago | benrothenberg.com | Ben Rothenberg

    PARIS, France — The first set went so badly for Iga Swiatek against Elena Rybakina on Sunday afternoon that I started combing through her scorelines from past years at Roland Garros, searching for a pattern that could explain the dramatic scene taking shape in front of me on Court Philippe Chatrier.

  • 6 days ago | benrothenberg.com | Ben Rothenberg

    PARIS, France — There weren’t any major shocks in the first week of the 2025 French Open, it turned out. All of the Top 8 women won the requisite three rounds to reach the second week; among the men, only No. 4 Taylor Fritz and No. 7 Casper Ruud bowed out early (Ruud was clearly injured in his second round loss to Nuno Borges). But despite most of the projected quarterfinalists hanging around, there was one result that floored me here as I watched it unfold on the scoreboard.

  • 6 days ago | benrothenberg.com | Ben Rothenberg

    PARIS, France — After a season in which she cracked the WTA Top 100 for the first time, Hailey Baptiste found herself without a coach at the end of the season. This wasn’t unprecedented for her: she’d often traveled the tour on her own, for better and worse. “Just kind of thugging it, battling my way through matches,” Baptiste said. “Lose a match, didn't really have anyone to talk to afterwards…had to do the whole debrief process by myself.

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