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
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
In one of the countless conversations we shared over more than 30 years, Guillermo Salatino, aka ‘Salata’, told me the following. ‘Last night, Eduardo Puppo and I spent two hours discussing this in bed. Between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m.
Among all the positives of the Laver Cup, the downside is the lie. The organisers, the broadcasters, even the ATP, mislead every time they call it a tournament, when in truth it is nothing more than an exhibition: players don’t
NEW YORK – Jelena Ostapenko cannot be expected to know that telling a Black American she lacks education carries a long historical stigma of racism in the United States. She should be excused. In some way, she should be understood.
Roger Federer sells glasses and Rafael Nadal builds hotels. And that’s fine, they’ve earned the right to do whatever they want once their professional tennis careers are over. The problem is that Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner only play tennis;
One of the most persistent and erroneous mantras in the world of tennis is that the sport is in crisis because it ranks twelfth or who knows where in the popularity and interest rankings in the United States. This fact,
We are in a new era. Period. And it is not that of Novak Djokovic, it is that of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner. Give up hope: the Serbian will remain at 24 Grand Slam titles. There will be no
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
What Carlos Alcaraz is doing is impressive. He arrives at the clay court season full of criticism: the old Djokovic knocked him out of Australia, he lost to Draper in Indian Wells, and he disappointed in Miami with a defeat
Novak Djokovic is going through a dangerous moment. His shots lack sting, he’s slow, and he’s struggling to finish points. It’s as if he’s playing one gear lower than the rest of today’s top players. Sinner, Alcaraz, Zverev… the younger
Tennis is one of the few industries where the employee holds power over the employer, as it is the player who hires the coach, not the other way around. It’s a complex dynamic—Elena Rybakina knows it well. She pays the
