French Open 2014

The 17-time Grand Slam champion has also given shelter to the flood victims in his tennis academy.

The 26-year-old Romanian tackles 2016 Roland Garros winner and reigning Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza for a place in Saturday's final.

Halep, the runner-up in Paris in 2014 and 2017, slumped 0-5 down in the opening set to world number 83 Riske whose only win at the tournament came in 2014.

Former world number one Williams, now ranked a lowly 453, is playing a Grand Slam for the first time since she won her 23rd major at the 2017 Australian Open after which she stepped off the tour to give birth to her daughter in September.

PSG have already incurred sanctions for a previous violation and were slapped with a 60-million-euro fine, 40 million of which suspended, in 2014, and saw their squad for the Champions League cut from 25 to 21 players.

The birthday girl from Latvia, who became the first unseeded player to reach the final since 1983, will play Romanian third seed Halep in the summit clash.

Scot world No 1 brushed aside Karen Khachanov's challenge while 2015 Roland Garros champion from Switzerland defeated Gael Monfils to reach the last-eight stage.

Former world number one Maria Sharapova vowed to "rise up again" after she was refused a wildcard for the French Open following her 15-month ban for doping.

This is the first time Rafael Nadal is the the semi-finals of a Grand Slam event since his French Open conquest in 2014

Rafael Nadal has won 14 Grand Slams in a glittering tennis career, but the last came at the French Open in 2014 and his 2016 season was ruined by a wrist problem.

Simona Halep -- a French Open finalist in 2014, the same year she reached the last four at Wimbledon -- said she had enough time to regain fitness for the year's third Grand Slam tournament

Novak Djokovic, who took Boris Becker on as a coach for the 2014 season, captured his first French Open to become only the eighth man to complete a career Grand Slam

Serena Williams will play Garbine Muguruza in the final and the top seed will be aiming for a repeat of her 2015 Wimbledon performance, where she defeated the Spaniard.

Top players such as former champion Ana Ivanovic, 2014 runner-up Simona Halep and ex-Wimbledon finalist Tomas Berdych are all sporting shirts at French Open with black and white zebra stripes

Novak Djokovic will try to end the reign of 2014 champion Marin Cilic of Croatia in the opening men's semi-final. Roger Federer follows onto Arthur Ashe Stadium court for an all-Swiss semi-final against French Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka.

The 17-time Grand Slam champion has also given shelter to the flood victims in his tennis academy.

The 26-year-old Romanian tackles 2016 Roland Garros winner and reigning Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza for a place in Saturday's final.

Halep, the runner-up in Paris in 2014 and 2017, slumped 0-5 down in the opening set to world number 83 Riske whose only win at the tournament came in 2014.

Former world number one Williams, now ranked a lowly 453, is playing a Grand Slam for the first time since she won her 23rd major at the 2017 Australian Open after which she stepped off the tour to give birth to her daughter in September.

PSG have already incurred sanctions for a previous violation and were slapped with a 60-million-euro fine, 40 million of which suspended, in 2014, and saw their squad for the Champions League cut from 25 to 21 players.

The birthday girl from Latvia, who became the first unseeded player to reach the final since 1983, will play Romanian third seed Halep in the summit clash.

Scot world No 1 brushed aside Karen Khachanov's challenge while 2015 Roland Garros champion from Switzerland defeated Gael Monfils to reach the last-eight stage.

Former world number one Maria Sharapova vowed to "rise up again" after she was refused a wildcard for the French Open following her 15-month ban for doping.

This is the first time Rafael Nadal is the the semi-finals of a Grand Slam event since his French Open conquest in 2014

Rafael Nadal has won 14 Grand Slams in a glittering tennis career, but the last came at the French Open in 2014 and his 2016 season was ruined by a wrist problem.

Simona Halep -- a French Open finalist in 2014, the same year she reached the last four at Wimbledon -- said she had enough time to regain fitness for the year's third Grand Slam tournament

Novak Djokovic, who took Boris Becker on as a coach for the 2014 season, captured his first French Open to become only the eighth man to complete a career Grand Slam

Serena Williams will play Garbine Muguruza in the final and the top seed will be aiming for a repeat of her 2015 Wimbledon performance, where she defeated the Spaniard.

Top players such as former champion Ana Ivanovic, 2014 runner-up Simona Halep and ex-Wimbledon finalist Tomas Berdych are all sporting shirts at French Open with black and white zebra stripes

Novak Djokovic will try to end the reign of 2014 champion Marin Cilic of Croatia in the opening men's semi-final. Roger Federer follows onto Arthur Ashe Stadium court for an all-Swiss semi-final against French Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka.