BERLIN – The Berlin sky could not quite decide what it wanted to do. The rain came and went on a last Saturday afternoon, but Coco Gauff never lost her smile. A few days before beginning her campaign at the
PARIS – Come Monday, he will be the world’s tenth-ranked tennis player, but the greatest contribution Flavio Cobolli is making to his sport has nothing to do with rankings or results, but rather with his joy and charisma. In a
PARIS – A dream come true: Alexander Zverev won the Roland Garros title on Sunday, lifting his first Grand Slam trophy – a goal he had pursued for years and which he once thought he would never achieve. But, now
PARIS – What is happening to tennis? Roland Garros leaves us with a disturbing conclusion: that gentleman’s sport is going through a strangely violent phase. And no one seems willing or able to slow down the escalation. The days of
PARIS – When you try something you like, you want to try it again. And again, and again. When someone like Joao Fonseca reaches the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time, he wants to do it again.
PARIS – “Jódar plays like a tornado. When ‘Sascha’ found out who he was facing, he shuddered a bit,” was Boris Becker’s analysis before the Alexander Zverev-Rafael Jódar clash in the Roland Garros quarterfinals. But the one who shuddered this
PARIS – Just a few weeks ago, Marta Kostyuk captured the biggest title of her career by winning the WTA 1000 event in Madrid. A minor injury forced the Ukrainian to withdraw from Rome, but she has returned in style
PARIS – He thought he would never be an elite tennis player again; he thought his story was over. And that is why Matteo Berrettini was overcome with joy on Saturday after securing an epic victory over Argentina’s Francisco Comesaña
PARIS – Is Novak Djokovic tired? Now that’s news, but following his earliest exit from Roland Garros in 16 years, the Serbian’s future on the tour is uncertain. “I don’t know,” he replied twice when asked by journalists after the
PARIS – With Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic out of the running, you have to go back to Roland Garros 2004 to find a more unpredictable tournament on the Parisian clay: the French Open, wild, unpredictable and more open than
PARIS – Jannik Sinner leaves ‘fried’ and cramping from the only Grand Slam he has yet to win, Casper Ruud turns into a ‘zombie’, and Novak Djokovic seeks unorthodox solutions that are difficult to implement. Paris is no party; Roland
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.
