{"id":12938,"date":"2026-06-04T05:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/12938\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:39:09","slug":"french-open-arnav-paparkars-french-open-boys-singles-run-ends-in-third-round-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/12938\/","title":{"rendered":"French Open: Arnav Paparkar&#8217;s French Open boys singles run ends in third round | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/131495968.jpg\" alt=\"Arnav Paparkar's French Open boys singles run ends in third round\" title=\"In a spirited showdown at the French Open, Arnav Paparkar's journey in the boys singles came to an end in the third round, where he faced off against American talent Jack Kennedy. (photo\/ Instagram )\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>In a spirited showdown at the French Open, Arnav Paparkar&#8217;s journey in the boys singles came to an end in the third round, where he faced off against American talent Jack Kennedy. (photo\/ Instagram ) PARIS: Arnav Paparkar\u2019s spirited run in the French Open boys singles came to an end in the third round, where he fell to the fourth-seeded American Jack Kennedy in straight sets.Kennedy, ranked 11 among ITF juniors and 426 on the ATP Tour, motored around the court using the wet, moisture laden conditions well. He repeatedly drew the Indian wide on his backhand, the low bounce adding to Paparkar\u2019s misery, to score a 7-5, 6-2 win. Parparkar, who stands 6 ft 1\u2019 in his tennis shoes, some four inches taller than his opponent, did well to change the pace and the length of his shots to fight his way back into the match after a poor start. He levelled at 2-2 and then 5-5.Kennedy, however, won eight of the next 10 games to wrap up the match.Paparkar, who was back on court for the boys doubles, partnering Thailand\u2019s Kunanan Pantaratorn, went down to the top-seeds Brazil\u2019s Luis Guto Miguel and Slovenia\u2019s Ziga Sesko 3-6, 3-6 in the second round.Balaji- Demoliner bow out:The Indo-Brazilian combination of Sriram Balaji and Marcelo Demoliner went down to second seeds Finland\u2019s Harri Heliovaara and Briton Henry Patten in the quarterfinals of the men\u2019s doubles action.Balaji, playing his first major quarterfinal, and Demoliner, lost 3-6, 4-6 in just under 80 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a spirited showdown at the French Open, Arnav Paparkar&#8217;s journey in the boys singles came to an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4480,5307,207,5305,5306,5308,5309,28,3476],"class_list":["post-12938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-arnav-paparkar","tag-balaji-demoliner","tag-french-open","tag-french-open-boys-singles","tag-jack-kennedy","tag-luis-guto-miguel","tag-sriram-balaji","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-doubles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}