MELBOURNE – Roger Federer has a clear recipe for Joao Fonseca to take the next step: patience and timing to unleash his full power. “Joao is a little bit like me, and also similar to Jannik (Sinner), in the sense
MELBOURNE – Jordan Smith won one million Australian dollars (around USD 670,000), posed with the trophy in front of the cameras and ended up signing autographs inside Rod Laver Arena as the first champion of this Australian Open. Who??? Jordan
MELBOURNE – CLAY continues to grow and expand its coverage from the world’s major tennis venues. At the start of 2026, Spain’s Nacho Encabo, one of the country’s most renowned tennis journalists, joins the team of reporters and editors on
BRISBANE – Daria Kasatkina acknowledged that players have no influence over Saudi Arabia’s growing presence on the WTA and ATP calendars. “As players, we don’t have much voice in questions like that. Our organizations want to do business, and we,
Andy Murray plays golf every day after dropping his children off at kindergarten; Jimmy Connors, at 73, does it six times a week; and Carlos Alcaraz picks up the clubs whenever he can — even during Grand Slams. The last
Novak Djokovic has stepped away from the leadership of his own players’ union, and part of the blame for that abrupt exit lies with Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner. Or rather: with their silence. The new kings of tennis —
‘Serena Williams wants to play a match against you. She thinks she can beat you.’ Spanish tennis player Francisco “Pato” Clavet, winner of eight titles and ranked 18th in the world in the early 1990s, received a very strange offer
Juan Carlos Ferrero has an open, deep wound that will take time to heal. The split with Carlos Alcaraz is painful — because of their shared history, because of the future that once seemed assured, and because of the reasons
In the hours and days following Juan Carlos Ferrero’s abrupt dismissal, Spanish media insisted that Carlos Alcaraz had not been involved in the decision, something Toni Nadal rejects: it is impossible that Ferrero was dismissed without Alcaraz’s intervention and approval,
Juan Carlos Ferrero renewed his contract with Carlos Alcaraz every year, but at the end of 2025, the signing of that contract was delayed. And everything accelerated, for the worse, until it led to the breakup. ‘What happened is very
Although there’s a saying in the advertising world that goes, “let them talk about you, even if it’s bad,” Aryna Sabalenka has surely felt her ears burning after Garbiñe Muguruza’s reflection on the difference between men’s and women’s tennis. “I
MADRID – ‘But who are these guys sitting on the bench now?’ Manel Serras, one of the best tennis journalists Spain has ever had, began a column in February 2000 with these words, just after the Spanish team defeated Italy
