If you want to keep a secret, it’s best not to share it with Roger Federer. In a time coincidence as extraordinary as involuntary, Rafael Nadal insisted that he is not a retired tennis player so that, just hours later,
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?
What is it really about: that men’s tennis has learned nothing since the shameful case of Andre Agassi, or that it really had nothing to learn, because it was anything but an accident? The problem then would not be Jannik
What happened in January 2022 with Novak Djokovic in Australia was the most ‘complicated’ experience of his life. Rafael Nadal may well still be playing in 2025. And the current Davis Cup situation ‘hurts’, because the story should not have
PARIS – As a teenager, Czech Tomas Machac made a drastic decision: without Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez and Neymar playing together at Barcelona, watching football no longer made sense. A few years later, at the age of just 23, he
PARIS – Spain was too much, too much for Carlos Alcaraz. The pressure he felt today in the final for Paris 2024 Olympic gold was “different”, he said. And hence the flood of tears, the emotional outpouring after the final
PARIS – There is one thing Serbian patriot Novak Djokovic has never clearly explained: why, on the day he could have won a medal for his country, he decided not to contest it and went home. Djokovic is still winning,
PARIS – At 20:48 in Paris, the final whistle blew. Spain’s Rafael Nadal said goodbye forever to the Olympic Games. And to the orange clay that made him one of the greatest and most amazing sportsmen of all time? ‘Rafa,
PARIS – Give me time, asks Rafael Nadal. And stop asking me every day about my retirement. The 6-1, 6-4 drubbing of Serbia’s Novak Djokovic was resounding, and Nadal is under no illusions about what his second-round exit from the
PARIS – Is it the last season, is it the last episode? Not to be ruled out. The 60th match between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic comes in an unusual situation, a second round, and with both in very different
PARIS – When Hady Habib, 25, ranked 275th in the world, wants to train his powerful serve, his partner is a basket. With no sponsors or rivals of his level in Lebanon, Habib is a tennis player who is alone
PARIS – When your name is Rafael Nadal and you are one of the greatest sportsmen ever seen, you attend the draw for a tournament in person, which rarely happens, and the result is the very serious possibility of a
