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
PARIS – It is nearly a thousand days without lifting a Grand Slam trophy. It is a single match played—and lost—on the clay-court swing leading up to Roland Garros. It is a shoulder injury that has dragged on for months.
Jannik Sinner, the champion. A phrase that keeps repeating itself throughout 2026. And with no player able to truly challenge him, the question looms over the sport: who can stop the world No. 1? The Italian lifted the Madrid Open
Tennis doesn’t come without a price. If Jimmy Connors, Guillermo Vilas, Björn Borg or John McEnroe had put their joints and ligaments under the same strain as players like Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic or Carlos Alcaraz do, their careers would
MADRID – The uneasy look on Carlos Alcaraz’s face a few days ago at the Laureus Awards gala in Madrid had a clear reason. Usually smiling and upbeat, the Spaniard appeared troubled and restless amid the uncertainty surrounding his right
MADRID – Withdrawing from the Madrid Masters 1000 is a cause for concern for Carlos Alcaraz. The Spaniard will miss his second consecutive tournament due to a wrist injury, will fall further behind Jannik Sinner in the race for the
BARCELONA – The same setting, the same time of year, the same problem. Carlos Alcaraz has picked up an injury at the Barcelona tournament. The phrase applies to 2025, but also to 2026. A year ago it was his leg,
