MADRID – Carlos Alcaraz will have to make a very difficult decision in the coming days: pull out of the US Open and miss his third Grand Slam of the season, or travel to the United States and compete without
LONDON — Alexander Zverev tries hard. He wants to be a better tennis player and challenge Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz for titles. And he also wants, desperately, to receive a little of the affection his great rivals enjoy. The
LONDON — Novak Djokovic wants to return to Wimbledon “at least one more time.” His next attempt at an eighth title in London will come in June 2027, when he turns 40. The Serbian is fighting an internal battle: “I’m
This Tuesday, July 7, from Atlanta to London, from football to tennis, two of sports’ greatest legends sent a similar message: Lionel Messi and Novak Djokovic said something along the lines of “we are old, yes, but we haven’t said
LONDON — Serena Williams leaves London with the bitterness of a comeback far more gruelling than she had surely imagined: defeat, injury, withdrawal and a wave of criticism. The final chapter of the first season of her return to the
LONDON — The English love talking about the weather, and in these sweltering days in the south of England, the conversation has intensified across television channels, radio and everyday exchanges. The red alert, issued rarely by the UK Met Office,
MADRID – This weekend marks a milestone for Carlos Alcaraz that is as symbolic as it is unsettling: 60 days will have passed since the last time he hit a ball with his racket—a two-month absence from the tour that
PARIS – What is happening to tennis? Roland Garros leaves us with a disturbing conclusion: that gentleman’s sport is going through a strangely violent phase. And no one seems willing or able to slow down the escalation. The days of
PARIS – When you try something you like, you want to try it again. And again, and again. When someone like Joao Fonseca reaches the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time, he wants to do it again.
PARIS – “Jódar plays like a tornado. When ‘Sascha’ found out who he was facing, he shuddered a bit,” was Boris Becker’s analysis before the Alexander Zverev-Rafael Jódar clash in the Roland Garros quarterfinals. But the one who shuddered this
PARIS – Is Novak Djokovic tired? Now that’s news, but following his earliest exit from Roland Garros in 16 years, the Serbian’s future on the tour is uncertain. “I don’t know,” he replied twice when asked by journalists after the
PARIS – With Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic out of the running, you have to go back to Roland Garros 2004 to find a more unpredictable tournament on the Parisian clay: the French Open, wild, unpredictable and more open than
