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
NEW YORK – The fourth day of the US Open ended with the biggest surprise of the tournament: Carlos Alcaraz exited in the second round of the last Grand Slam of the year. ‘Mentally I’m not well, I’m not strong.
PARIS – Spain was too much, too much for Carlos Alcaraz. The pressure he felt today in the final for Paris 2024 Olympic gold was “different”, he said. And hence the flood of tears, the emotional outpouring after the final
PARIS – There is one thing Serbian patriot Novak Djokovic has never clearly explained: why, on the day he could have won a medal for his country, he decided not to contest it and went home. Djokovic is still winning,
PARIS – At 20:48 in Paris, the final whistle blew. Spain’s Rafael Nadal said goodbye forever to the Olympic Games. And to the orange clay that made him one of the greatest and most amazing sportsmen of all time? ‘Rafa,
PARIS – Give me time, asks Rafael Nadal. And stop asking me every day about my retirement. The 6-1, 6-4 drubbing of Serbia’s Novak Djokovic was resounding, and Nadal is under no illusions about what his second-round exit from the
PARIS – Is it the last season, is it the last episode? Not to be ruled out. The 60th match between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic comes in an unusual situation, a second round, and with both in very different
PARIS – When Hady Habib, 25, ranked 275th in the world, wants to train his powerful serve, his partner is a basket. With no sponsors or rivals of his level in Lebanon, Habib is a tennis player who is alone
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
