PARIS – Rafael Nadal is happy in Paris, and that should not be news, after all he is the owner of 14 titles at Roland Garros. But behind the smiles, the jokes and the ironies that he displayed on Tuesday
There is something very clear, indisputable, when it comes to Novak Djokovic: never believe he is lost when he seems lost. Roger Federer can say a lot about that, for example, after that 2011 US Open semi-final and, above all,
PARIS – On Friday night, after a hard-fought victory over Italian Jannik Sinner in the semi-finals, Carlos Alcaraz heard a little criticism over dinner with his family and team. “Carlos, you didn’t laugh until the fifth set! Not a smile
PARIS – Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz made history in a big way by winning Roland Garros on Sunday as he became the youngest player in the professional era to lift three Grand Slam titles on three different surfaces. Alcaraz, 21, beat
PARIS – No one can deny that Carlos Alcaraz is a confident young man, and he does nothing to hide it either. In that sense, the Spaniard is much more like Serbia’s Novak Djokovic than his compatriot Rafael Nadal. ‘There
PARIS – Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz will go for the Roland Garros title on Sunday after a 1-6, 6-2, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 win over Italy’s Jannik Sinner, the new world number one on Monday. It will be the third Grand Slam
PARIS – Carlos Alcaraz is through to the Roland Garros semi-finals thanks to a tense win over Stefanos Tsitisipas, who wrote a new chapter in his own Greek tennis tragedy. Alcaraz prevailed 6-3, 7-6 (7-3), 6-4 on the first truly
PARIS – Serbia’s Novak Djokovic announced on Tuesday that he was withdrawing from Roland Garros due to a knee injury, ushering in a new era of tennis with the arrival of Jannik Sinner at world number one, the first Italian
PARIS – Carlos Alcaraz is grinning from ear to ear after making it into the last 16 at Roland Garros and Mats Wilander asks him a question in the post-match interview. ‘Were you worried about the match with Sebastian
PARIS – It’s not hard to understand why Roger Federer prefers the warm waters of Southeast Asia to six consecutive days of cold and rain in Paris, but the truth is that, beyond being retired from tennis and enjoying the
PARIS – ‘A match worthy of a final,’ said Chris Evert once Poland’s Iga Swiatek’s triumph over Japan’s Naomi Osaka was a done deal. And a match to remember, because Swiatek gave the Parisian crowd a double lesson: in tennis
PARIS – How romantic Paris is on a rainy day – and how rainy London is! Both clichés are being overtaken by reality: neither the spectators nor the players believe that Roland Garros is a romantic place today, and by
