PARIS — His family speaks, his team speaks, his greatest rivals speak. The portrait of Rafael Nadal in RAFA, the new Netflix docuseries, is an intimate journey through the voices that shaped the career of the 22-time Grand Slam champion.
PARIS – Joao Fonseca’s season had been so barren and gruelling that the Brazilian will likely remember for a long time what he achieved on this sweltering Wednesday in Paris: coming back from two sets down with a performance that
PARIS – Tennis throws up surprises from time to time, but one could say it has just reached a whole new level with Roland Garros delivering the story of a player whose coach abandoned him without warning in the middle
At Roland Garros, Jannik Sinner’s greatest rival will be the weight of history, not the opponents standing across the net. After opening up a vast gap in level over the past few months, the Italian is beginning to show the
PARIS – Rafael Nadal’s success and legendary mindset cannot be understood without the influence of his uncle Toni—the man who molded one of the most resilient and privileged minds in sports history. Yet, the prolific relationship between nephew and uncle,
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
