MELBOURNE – How many child prodigies have you seen in your lifetime? Six-year-olds who played the piano as only geniuses can, seven-year-olds who solved the most intricate mathematical problems, eight-year-olds who recited the Penal Code from end to end? Or
MELBOURNE – If tennis awarded points for smiles as well as winners and errors, Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic would be in serious trouble. The big contender for the number one spot would be from Argentina and his
MELBOURNE – Looking to make up for lost time, Emma Raducanu will have a great chance against Iga Swiatek in the third round of the Australian Open. ‘It’s going to be a great shot of adrenaline,’ said the British 18-year-old
MELBOURNE – It wasn’t Brad Gilbert’s ‘winning ugly’ that he needed, because he wouldn’t know how to do it, but Joao Fonseca came up just short of passing a test of maturity in Australia on Thursday: winning by playing badly.
MELBOURNE – Anyone remember wii Sports? Well, anyone who’s forgotten it can recapture the memory these days at the Australian Open, which ‘gamifies’ its players for live matches. It happens every day at the first Grand Slam of the year,
MELBOURNE – On the night the tennis world recognised him as the sport’s newest star, Joao Fonseca was speechless. ‘If I were to travel to Brazil and I wanted to buy your talent, how much money would I need?’ asked
MELBOURNE – A few months ago, Matthew McCounaghey gave Nick Kyrgios some advice: what if you fell in love with tennis, what if you made a conscious decision to fall in love with tennis? But the Australian went another way:
MELBOURNE – The pursuit of beauty can lead to tragedy, examples of which abound in history, literature, film or music. Also tennis, where no one embodies tragic beauty better than Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas: playing beautiful no longer works, he discovered
MELBOURNE – Broken rackets, self-harming, and angry outbursts were the reflection of his torment. Deep down, Andrey Rublev was living in hell, and he can now admit it openly: “I saw no reason to live.” The world’s No. 9 player
MELBOURNE – Kei Nishikori admitted Sunday that a year ago he thought about quitting professional tennis. He did so at the press conference following his five-set comeback against Thiago Monteiro in the first round of the Australian Open. Two opposite
MELBOURNE – Chilean Nicolás Jarry believes the ATP and tennis anti-doping authorities were unfair to him and did not treat him the same way they did Italian Jannik Sinner. “I would have liked the same support he got when it
MELBOURNE – With his usual smile and his hair as short as ever, Carlos Alcaraz goes back and forth on the same idea: relax. Alcaraz’s “2025 model” wants to relax, and he will do so on multiple fronts. ‘This move
