MELBOURNE – A few months ago, Matthew McCounaghey gave Nick Kyrgios some advice: what if you fell in love with tennis, what if you made a conscious decision to fall in love with tennis? But the Australian went another way:
MADRID – So many times the impossible was possible, Rafael Nadal and those around him ended up believing that things are always like that. You can win Roland Garros 14 times, you can return to world number one after injuries
We are privileged to witness the rivalry between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner. Who will dominate over the next 10 years? Although both have highly aggressive games, the Spaniard and the Italian have different styles. It’s already a classic, and
What if Carlos Alcaraz is asking for help? What if the 21-year-old Spaniard is saying, without knowing he’s saying it, that he needs good tips, a series of in-depth conversations that will allow him to broaden and change his perspective?
PARIS – Stefanos Tsitsipas probably doesn’t know who Ronald Agenor was, the greatest Haitian tennis player in history, a talent from the 1980s who rose to No. 22 in the world. But the Greek is well informed about what ‘voodoo’
PARIS – In recent years in tennis you will have heard a lot of talk about ‘resilience’ and ‘mental health’. And always, always, about dollars. But surely you have rarely come across another word that is as simple as it
Now don’t be surprised that the Frenchman is thirsty for revenge, if he had to deal with the worst fans this year in the entire ATP Tour. Corentin Moutet got the best of his tennis and his personality when he
MADRID – In 2007, the four major tennis tournaments greeted with wonder and trepidation an audacious idea from Ion Tiriac: to create a fifth Grand Slam tournament based in Madrid. “One must have the possibility to compete. In prizes, in
Nick Kyrgios says he doesn’t remember watching Boris Becker on Netflix. And he’s right. The German is a failure, because not being part of the cast of Break Point, the best thing that can happen to you in tennis, is
Guillermo Salatino’s Op-Ed | Gabriela Sabatini spoke, a few days ago, about the differences between tennis nowadays and during the eighties and nineties, when she was a pro. “Today the tennis dominance (in women tennis) is more changeable. Before there
PARIS – As Thiago Seyboth Wild was shaking off Daniil Medvedev with serves and forehands on the Roland Garros Centre Court, one question kept coming up from spectators and reporters alike: who is this guy? Logical. The Brazilian arrived in
How far will Carlos Alcaraz go? To heaven, he says. And how wonderful that, at 19 years of age, he dares to says it, and dream about it. Along with the Spaniard many tennis lovers dream of having his strokes,
