PARIS – The idea sounds crazy, but on the same day that Rafael Nadal said goodbye to Roland Garros and tennis for good, the Spaniard himself raised the possibility of a new Rafael Nadal on the tour. “If my son
PARIS – His rivals over the past two decades would have been well advised to take note: Rafael Nadal‘s kryptonite on the orange clay of Paris was not to be found in his racket, but in his heart. Dressed in
HAMBURG – Gerard Piqué’s vision for changing the Davis Cup ‘wasn’t bad,’ says the man who was in charge of the 2023 and 2024 editions of the century-old tournament. “Piqué‘s vision wasn’t bad. The old Davis Cup format wasn’t working”,
One life can hold many lives. You can shake hands with Roger Federer on the tennis court and, years later, throw yourself into the arms of Javier Milei. Argentine Diego Hartfield knows this well. He was first a tennis player,
MADRID – Casper Ruud was raised too well. Calm, thoughtful, friendly and humorous, the Norwegian is one of the players most deserving of moving from the ‘finalist’ category to ‘champion’ in a Grand Slam tournament. He deserves it for his
RIO DE JANEIRO – Joao Lucas Reis, the Brazilian who at the end of 2024 became the first male tennis player on the men’s circuit to come out as gay, is clear about one thing: it is very unlikely that
The French Open is perhaps the toughest of the four Grand Slams to win. The slow, sliding clay courts have made mincemeat of even the best players on the tour, especially throughout the Rafael Nadal era. Between 2005 and 2022,
RÍO DE JANEIRO – Under the tropical heat, with Christ the Redeemer embracing everyone from the top of Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro is further proof of the passion that tennis awakens in Latin America. Does the ATP know or understand
PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — If Bob Marley had been a tennis fan instead of a football lover, what’s happening these days in the Dominican Republic might have inspired one of his songs. In just sixty days and with a
PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic – Rafael Nadal had a significant advantage over Roger Federer in their head-to-head record, but there was a period when the Swiss dominated him: “He was playing the best tennis of his life; I felt like
Why in football are penalties kicked from 11 metres away? Why not kick them from five metres from the goal? There would be more goals, more enthusiasm, more children playing football and more business! Why not allow in football, when
RIO DE JANEIRO – Gustavo Kuerten grabs his arm and says: “I’ve got goose bumps”. He is talking about Joao Fonseca. And Kuerten opens his eyes, smiles and says without hesitation: he would have been incapable of winning Roland Garros
