MELBOURNE – Isn’t tennis a sport that demands maximum concentration? You wouldn’t think so, judging by the priorities of the Australian Open organisers. This 2025, they not only kept the bar with a terrace next to Court 6 for a
MELBOURNE – It wasn’t Brad Gilbert’s ‘winning ugly’ that he needed, because he wouldn’t know how to do it, but Joao Fonseca came up just short of passing a test of maturity in Australia on Thursday: winning by playing badly.
MELBOURNE – Anyone remember wii Sports? Well, anyone who’s forgotten it can recapture the memory these days at the Australian Open, which ‘gamifies’ its players for live matches. It happens every day at the first Grand Slam of the year,
MELBOURNE – Nicolas Jarry and Jannik Sinner’s versions of their doping cases clash in Australia. First it was the Chilean who said: ‘I would have liked the same support he had. Then came the counterattack from the world number one:
MELBOURNE – The pursuit of beauty can lead to tragedy, examples of which abound in history, literature, film or music. Also tennis, where no one embodies tragic beauty better than Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas: playing beautiful no longer works, he discovered
MELBOURNE – Broken rackets, self-harming, and angry outbursts were the reflection of his torment. Deep down, Andrey Rublev was living in hell, and he can now admit it openly: “I saw no reason to live.” The world’s No. 9 player
MELBOURNE – Kei Nishikori admitted Sunday that a year ago he thought about quitting professional tennis. He did so at the press conference following his five-set comeback against Thiago Monteiro in the first round of the Australian Open. Two opposite
MELBOURNE – Chilean Nicolás Jarry believes the ATP and tennis anti-doping authorities were unfair to him and did not treat him the same way they did Italian Jannik Sinner. “I would have liked the same support he got when it
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
MELBOURNE – Novak Djokovic lives a paradox in Melbourne. It’s a city that brings him both great memories and others that are traumatic, humiliating, and painful. The latest of his nightmares to come to light: a claim of food poisoning
MELBOURNE – Setting goals that are too high can be dangerous. A double-edged sword. Just ask Naomi Osaka, who started 2025 with goals as far away as when she returned to tennis. “I want to win eight more Grand Slams,”
Brazilian Joao Lucas Reis, ranked 401st in the world and the 11th-best tennis player in Brazil, publicly came out as gay. He is the first active male professional tennis player to openly acknowledge his homosexuality. He made the announcement by
