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 – Paraguayan Daniel Vallejo is set to face a ‘significant sanction’ from the Roland Garros tournament after claiming in comments to CLAY that certain matches should not be officiated by women. “The French Tennis Federation (FFT) and the organisers
PARIS – Two female umpires came under fire on Thursday at Roland Garros, criticised by Jim Courier in his role as a television pundit and by Paraguayan Daniel Vallejo following his five-set, five-hour defeat to French prodigy Moise Kouame. ‘This
PARIS – Jannik Sinner leaves ‘fried’ and cramping from the only Grand Slam he has yet to win, Casper Ruud turns into a ‘zombie’, and Novak Djokovic seeks unorthodox solutions that are difficult to implement. Paris is no party; Roland
PARIS — His family speaks, his team speaks, his greatest rivals speak. The portrait of Rafael Nadal in RAFA, the new Netflix docuseries, is an intimate journey through the voices that shaped the career of the 22-time Grand Slam champion.
PARIS – Joao Fonseca’s season had been so barren and gruelling that the Brazilian will likely remember for a long time what he achieved on this sweltering Wednesday in Paris: coming back from two sets down with a performance that
PARIS – Tennis throws up surprises from time to time, but one could say it has just reached a whole new level with Roland Garros delivering the story of a player whose coach abandoned him without warning in the middle
PARIS — Cristian Garin is sad. He loves tennis, he is aware of the journey he has made and everything that still lies ahead, but in the year his father Sergio died, everything feels like an uphill battle for the
PARIS – Rafael Nadal’s success and legendary mindset cannot be understood without the influence of his uncle Toni—the man who molded one of the most resilient and privileged minds in sports history. Yet, the prolific relationship between nephew and uncle,
PARIS – When tennis is a dream, your whole life lies ahead of you. When that dream came true and came to an end, there is a whole life to look back on. Swiss player Stanislas Wawrinka knows this all
PARIS – The images and the news don’t lie: Juan Martín Del Potro is not having a good time. Just days after a group of Chilean burglars broke into his home in Argentina to steal, among other things, some of
PARIS — A foot split in half, holes in tendons and intestines, a shattered knee, anti-inflammatory injections, sleepless nights, and visits to doctors halfway across the world: RAFA, the new Netflix docuseries, dives deep into Rafael Nadal’s injury history to
