Tennis is told to be afraid, but everything indicates that tennis has no reason to be afraid. This was clear in the epic final of the Roland Garros tournament between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, with a dramatic victory for
PARIS – Carlos Alcaraz was taken aback by the question. “Honestly, what you told me right now sounds to me like you were talking Chinese. I have no idea what you were talking about, so I don’t know if it
PARIS – The controversy in tennis over Italy’s desire to host a fifth Grand Slam tournament is growing in intensity: now Madrid is asking to host a tournament on the same level as Roland Garros, albeit with certain nuances. Firstly,
PARIS – Everything indicates that there will be tennis after tennis for Rafael Nadal. That is what one of the people who knows him best, his uncle and former coach, believes. Toni Nadal sees the 14-time Roland Garros champion playing
PARIS – Leaving the defending champion off the centre court on his return to the tournament is unusual, but Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz played down the decisions made by Roland Garros: he is confident of lifting the trophy again and, in
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,
