<p>PARIS &mdash; Five Americans made it through qualifying rounds for the French Open tennis tournament, the most since 2004.</p>
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<a href="https://apnews.com/article/europe-paris-tennis-sports-2b0a8bf237778d2c19e7f369b1bd8e33">Jenson Brooksby</a> of Sacramento, California; Bjorn Fratangelo of Pittsburgh; and Mackenzie McDonald of Piedmont, California, give the U.S. three men who qualified for the Grand Slam event played on red clay for just the third time since 1982.</p>
<p>The two American women joining them are Hailey Baptiste of Washington and Varvara Lepchenko of Allentown, Pennsylvania. </p>
<p>Brooksby, 20, saved three match points in the second set and came back to beat Evan Furness of France 6-7 (5), 7-6 (2), 6-4 in a contest that lasted nearly 3 1/2 hours Friday. </p>
<p>It’s the second time Brooksby has qualified at a Grand Slam tournament: At the 2019 U.S. Open, he wound up beating 2010 Wimbledon runner-up Tomas Berdych in the first round of the main draw.</p>
<p>Fratangelo, 27, defeated Alexsandar Vukic of Australia 6-2, 7-6 (3) on Thursday to get into the French Open field, while McDonald, 26, advanced with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Marco Trungelliti on Friday. </p>
<p>Baptiste, 19, beat Julia Grabher of Austria 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, and Lepchenko, 35, defeated Anna-Lena Friedsam of Germany 6-1, 6-3.</p>
<p>The French Open starts Sunday.</p>
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