PARIS – When tennis is a dream, your whole life lies ahead of you. When that dream came true and came to an end, there is a whole life to look back on. Swiss player Stanislas Wawrinka knows this all
PARIS – The images and the news don’t lie: Juan Martín Del Potro is not having a good time. Just days after a group of Chilean burglars broke into his home in Argentina to steal, among other things, some of
PARIS — A foot split in half, holes in tendons and intestines, a shattered knee, anti-inflammatory injections, sleepless nights, and visits to doctors halfway across the world: RAFA, the new Netflix docuseries, dives deep into Rafael Nadal’s injury history to
PARIS — When the Roland Garros draw was made on Thursday, Oksana Selekhmeteva’s name had no flag next to it due to the sanctions imposed on Russian athletes following the war in Ukraine. This Sunday, Selekhmeteva made her debut in
PARIS — Rafael Jódar’s life has taken a 180-degree turn. Exactly one year ago, he was ranked 707th in the ATP rankings and playing as a junior wild card at the Little Rock Challenger in Arkansas. Today, his name echoes
ROME – Massimo turns his head slightly towards his passenger and utters a statement with the forcefulness and poise that perhaps only an Italian can muster. ‘Football is dead in Italy; there’s no football left. Tennis is the number one
PARIS — This Friday, 22 May, was marked as a pivotal day in the ongoing dispute between tennis players and Grand Slam tournaments over prize money. Yet what had been billed as a Media Day boycott at Roland Garros fell
MADRID — Carlos Alcaraz will not be at Wimbledon. The 23-year-old announced on Tuesday that he is also withdrawing from the grass court swing due to a right wrist injury, a decision that raises serious questions about the severity of
In the universe, nothing moves faster than the speed of light. In tennis, it seemed nothing could move faster than Djokovic, who at 37 became the first player to win every important trophy in the tour. Jannik Sinner’s title run
A winter in North America is never easy, but for two brothers who had just moved from Kiryat Motzkin, Israel, to Canada in 1994, one tennis sticker album brought a much-needed ray of warmth. The collection, meant to promote the
South American tennis looks ahead to 2028 with concern and pessimism: “The Masters 1000 that’s going to be played in Saudi Arabia will hurt the swing a lot. We have to accept that Top 50 players won’t come,” Argentina’s Tomás
MADRID – Not the elegance of Roger Federer, nor the records of Novak Djokovic, nor the resilience of Rafael Nadal: for Ion Tiriac, the greatest tennis player of all time is someone who rose from nothing, a player with no
