PARIS – Paraguayan Daniel Vallejo is set to face a ‘significant sanction’ from the Roland Garros tournament after claiming in comments to CLAY that certain matches should not be officiated by women. ‘The French Tennis Federation (FFT) and the organisers
PARIS – Two female umpires came under fire on Thursday at Roland Garros, criticised by Jim Courier in his role as a television pundit and by Paraguayan Daniel Vallejo following his five-set, five-hour defeat to French prodigy Moise Kouame. ‘This
PARIS – Jannik Sinner leaves ‘fried’ and cramping from the only Grand Slam he has yet to win, Casper Ruud turns into a ‘zombie’, and Novak Djokovic seeks unorthodox solutions that are difficult to implement. Paris is no party; Roland
PARIS – Joao Fonseca’s season had been so barren and gruelling that the Brazilian will likely remember for a long time what he achieved on this sweltering Wednesday in Paris: coming back from two sets down with a performance that
PARIS – Tennis throws up surprises from time to time, but one could say it has just reached a whole new level with Roland Garros delivering the story of a player whose coach abandoned him without warning in the middle
PARIS — Cristian Garin is sad. He loves tennis, he is aware of the journey he has made and everything that still lies ahead, but in the year his father Sergio died, everything feels like an uphill battle for the
PARIS – When tennis is a dream, your whole life lies ahead of you. When that dream came true and came to an end, there is a whole life to look back on. Swiss player Stanislas Wawrinka knows this all
PARIS – The images and the news don’t lie: Juan Martín Del Potro is not having a good time. Just days after a group of Chilean burglars broke into his home in Argentina to steal, among other things, some of
ROME – Massimo turns his head slightly towards his passenger and utters a statement with the forcefulness and poise that perhaps only an Italian can muster. ‘Football is dead in Italy; there’s no football left. Tennis is the number one
ROME – Martín Landaluce doesn’t bat an eyelid when explaining how he spends the little free time afforded by his dual life as a rising professional tennis player and a dedicated university student. ‘I’m reading “The Art of Dying” by
Tennis doesn’t come without a price. If Jimmy Connors, Guillermo Vilas, Björn Borg or John McEnroe had put their joints and ligaments under the same strain as players like Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic or Carlos Alcaraz do, their careers would
BARCELONA – The same setting, the same time of year, the same problem. Carlos Alcaraz has picked up an injury at the Barcelona tournament. The phrase applies to 2025, but also to 2026. A year ago it was his leg,
