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
Tennis doesn’t come without a price. If Jimmy Connors, Guillermo Vilas, Björn Borg or John McEnroe had put their joints and ligaments under the same strain as players like Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic or Carlos Alcaraz do, their careers would
MADRID – Withdrawing from the Madrid Masters 1000 is a cause for concern for Carlos Alcaraz. The Spaniard will miss his second consecutive tournament due to a wrist injury, will fall further behind Jannik Sinner in the race for the
MADRID – The world’s top tennis stars do not take advantage of their influence and prominence to fight against climate change, wars, sexism, and social injustices. If you were asked to guess the age and profession of the person behind
It’s impossible to forget Gerard Piqué warning of the collapse of tennis before he himself, with the invaluable collaboration of the International Tennis Federation (ITF), destroyed the Davis Cup. Impossible to forget him, yes, because the former Spanish footballer has
MADRID – “Look, that’s ‘Tintin’ over there. Mark my words, he’s going to blow everyone away.” Miguel Avendaño, son of the former Spanish Davis Cup captain of the same name, walks through the Club de Campo de Madrid and speaks
MADRID – “I’m getting tired of playing Roger Federer in every round.” This remark by Carlos Alcaraz a week ago in Indian Wells, uttered somewhere between a joke and resignation, hides a rather bitter truth for him: practically all his
MADRID – Almost three months after the break-up between Carlos Alcaraz and Juan Carlos Ferrero, the situation of the two protagonists is diametrically opposed. While the tennis player is enjoying one of the best runs of his career, undefeated since
How much more money do you need when you’re a multimillionaire? How much sense does it make to keep accumulating wealth? These questions apply to Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas, but also to a few other players. And to the ATP. The
The image of Tomás Martín Etcheverry jumping on the Gustavo Kuerten centre court at the Rio Open while the Brazilian ball boys and ball girls chanted ‘Etche, Etche!’ in celebration of the Argentine confirms one thing: South America’s biggest tournament
BUENOS AIRES – The ATP wants to maintain and boost the South American tennis tour. At least, that is what Martín Jaite, director of the Argentine Open, claims Andrea Gaudenzi, head of the ATP, told him during his visit to
BUENOS AIRES – There is one word that comes up again and again in every public appearance by Joao Fonseca: pressure. And it makes sense: he was not even 18 years old and already people were talking about him as
