SANTIAGO, Chile – Winning makes you more beautiful. That’s what Juan Pablo Varillas believes: “After Roland Garros I’m prettier”. The Peruvian sits down to talk with CLAY without complications about a reality that touches tennis players. If the triumphs bring
NEW YORK – Seeing a psychologist has helped Peru’s number one to understand that his mind, physique and tennis are fit for the top level of competition, after being relegated to the secondary circuit for five or six years without
PARIS – Juan Pablo Varillas has been watching Peru from afar for six years, although he never stops thinking about Peru. This Sunday, when the world No. 94 will step onto the Philippe Chatrier stadium for the most important match
He is young, talented, sets no limits for himself, and is eager to win. Ignacio Buse, the 21-year-old Peruvian tennis player, is the project giving Peru hope and already showing he has the level to compete in the best tournaments
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
Brazilian Joao Lucas Reis, ranked 401st in the world and the 11th-best tennis player in Brazil, publicly came out as gay. He is the first active male professional tennis player to openly acknowledge his homosexuality. He made the announcement by
Quitting tennis and not having a life project can be very dangerous, but perhaps not as dangerous as being young, playing tennis and living in the unreal social media world. Says the Argentine Juan Mónaco, a man who methodically prepared
LONDON – The passion for tennis does not let go of Nicolás Pereira. Pro player in the nineties, TV commentator since the beginning of the 2000s, and also from 2023, member of the ATP Players’ Council. The Venezuelan is the
LONDON – Before his Wimbledon debut, Pedro Cachin’s phone was blowing up. It was his turn to play Novak Djokovic, and his friends showered him with messages of encouragement. “People were telling me to enjoy it. I told them that
PARIS – There is one thing that separates the WTA from the ATP, one aspect in which they are very different: on the women’s tennis tour there are players who are openly lesbian. In the men’s tennis tour, no player
SANTIAGO, Chile – After losing in the second round of the Argentina Open, Dominic Thiem ‘s training videos were all over social media. It was raining heavily in the Argentine capital, and the Austrian and his coach, Chilean Nicolás Massu,
