MELBOURNE – It may be time to start paying closer, more serious attention to the Philippine market in tennis. What is happening with Alexandra Eala and the Philippines is a phenomenon with few points of comparison. Her three-set loss to
MELBOURNE – He retired in 2022, and just a few months ago he found himself imagining being a professional tennis player again. Roger Federer revealed that he has put himself in the shoes of Carlos Alcaraz and Grigor Dimitrov to
It is most likely that the name Hajar Abdelkader does not ring a bell. But when reading “the tennis player from the viral video who played an official tournament without knowing how to hold a racket and lost 6–0, 6–0”,
Carlos Alcaraz experienced what no public figure wants: becoming the focus of a polarised public debate in the middle of his holidays and ahead of a 2026 that is shaping up to be key, perhaps decisive, in his career. Why
There is only one Uncle Toni, and not even Rafael Nadal was able to keep him on throughout his entire career. Players and coaches are doomed to part ways, to break off that strange relationship in which the theoretical sports
When Elena Vesnina asks Carlos Alcaraz if his heart ‘is taken,’ there can be several interpretations. One might think that it does tennis no harm to talk a little about personal life, about the human and the divine, instead of
SÃO PAULO – Roberta Fonseca radiates happiness. She can’t contain her joy as she watches her son hold the most important trophy of his young career. While they take the family photo on court, she kisses her child Joao. Joao
If, instead of putting all his efforts into developing missiles, Kim Jong-un had managed to turn North Korea into an economic powerhouse above its southern neighbour, the ATP would soon be proudly announcing the Pyongyang Masters 1000. Anything is possible
SÃO PAULO – Fighting every week to climb the world rankings and earn a place among the best tennis players in the world is already a tough challenge in itself. Doing so as a ‘ghost’ on the tour is even
If there is one president who knows how to take political advantage of sport, it is Donald Trump. And this Sunday, the US Open, which has not been visited by a US president for a quarter of a century, will
NEW YORK – On Friday afternoon, September 5, 2025, Novak Djokovic extended yet another of his records: the oldest player to play the semifinals at all four Grand Slams in a single year. It was the seventh time in his
Stefanos Tsitsipas‘ choice is simple. He can be the Phoenix. Or he can become Sisyphus. If the gods of Olympus forced us to read only one tennis website out of all those available, reading CLAY would be a good choice
