Reality is tough, reality bites. Especially when it remains hidden and then suddenly becomes evident. This is the case of Guillermo Vilas, Argentine tennis legend and one of the most successful tennis players of all time, winner of four Grand
MADRID – “I don’t see it,” was heard from Carlos Alcaraz’s box when German Jan-Lennard Struff was a rampaging tennis nightmare who had silenced the Caja Mágica. But you saw it: Madrid champion and, having passed the all-important subject of
A shiver runs down the spine of tennis: Roland Garros without Rafael Nadal ? It’s perfectly possible. Absent from Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Madrid, and now Rome, he only has Paris left in the clay-court season. And there’s a serious chance
When a pregnancy changes your career and injects you the dose of motivation you were missing. “I want to win eight more Grand Slams”. Measured by the most important yardstick, the major titles, Naomi Osaka is the most successful tennis
“A specter is haunting Europe”, wrote Karl Marx and Frederick Engels at the end of the 19th century: the ghost was communism, and it would end up haunting the whole world. The “Communist Manifesto” is certainly not something that has
SANTIAGO, Chile – Little Juanito Jarry can’t understand what’s going on on that noisy tennis court, but he waves a tiny racquet and smiles. His father, Nicolás Jarry Fillol serves for the match. One of the most important moments in
BUENOS AIRES – “-Yes, yes!”. Carlos Alcaraz clenched his fists as his pink T-shirt looked soaked. Happy, he confirmed something: three and a half months may have passed between October 31, 2022 in Paris and February 15, 2023 in Buenos
MELBOURNE – When Novak Djokovic arrived in Australia, he did so with a nervousness he had not experienced before. He didn’t know what the crowd’s reaction was going to be like. He had no idea what was going to happen
MELBOURNE – Winning a Grand Slam has been one of the toughest challenges in men’s sport for the past 20 years. Will it still be that way in 2023? Almost all top tennis players are betting on a new Grand
MELBOURNE – Juncheng Shang had the luxury of dismissing a world number one. Marcelo Rios had a fleeting experience as coach of the young Chinese, who in Australia, explained his dismissal: “He was disrespectful”. “For me and my family, the
SYDNEY – Freshness, novelty and entertainment is what the United Cup is bringing. The mixed teams tennis competition, which fuses elements of its predecessors, has those who have tried it very happy. They love it. The last great memory of
Rafael Nadal’s life was, in that respect, rather dull and disappointing. Shanghai, London and Torino. The Masters, which is his name even though every now and then the ATP insists on renaming it, was neither kind nor generous to the
