In the more than 30 years that I have been a journalist, I have never followed a story with such closeness, persistence and intensity as that of Rafael Nadal. On the day of his retirement, the introduction to my latest
Roger Federer already knew, and, in his own way, he told it to the whole world on the morning of September 3rd in a television studio in New York: Rafael Nadal would soon announce his retirement. A retirement that the
Twenty-three years after a doping case in which he was proven innocent, but which ruined part of his career, Argentine Guillermo Coria sees what is happening with Italian Jannik Sinner and regrets: he would have liked to have received the
Something good is happening to tennis – is it Netflix, was it the pandemic, is it the combination of both? ‘I don’t know,’ Luiz Carvalho, a man of long experience in tennis, tells CLAY. ‘But the truth is that all the
BERLIN – If you walk through Berlin these days, you will see many people wearing Roger Federer caps. There are more and more as you approach the Uber Arena near Warschauer-Straße subway station. Here and there, tennis fans are also
NEW YORK – Jannik Sinner feels the reaction from his colleagues after his Clostebol doping case came to light was ‘quite positive’. He said this with the US Open trophy glinting at his side, when asked what he thinks this
If you want to keep a secret, it’s best not to share it with Roger Federer. In a time coincidence as extraordinary as involuntary, Rafael Nadal insisted that he is not a retired tennis player so that, just hours later,
What if Carlos Alcaraz is asking for help? What if the 21-year-old Spaniard is saying, without knowing he’s saying it, that he needs good tips, a series of in-depth conversations that will allow him to broaden and change his perspective?
What is it really about: that men’s tennis has learned nothing since the shameful case of Andre Agassi, or that it really had nothing to learn, because it was anything but an accident? The problem then would not be Jannik
What happened in January 2022 with Novak Djokovic in Australia was the most ‘complicated’ experience of his life. Rafael Nadal may well still be playing in 2025. And the current Davis Cup situation ‘hurts’, because the story should not have
Missing his brother, a long-time tennis partner who was suddenly suspended from the tour, made Elias Ymer stronger: “I grew a lot as a person during this though time”. Mikael Ymer failed three doping tests in 2021 and therefore had
PARIS – As a teenager, Czech Tomas Machac made a drastic decision: without Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez and Neymar playing together at Barcelona, watching football no longer made sense. A few years later, at the age of just 23, he
