It isn’t exactly the ‘Last Eight Club’, because far fewer people can join it: the ‘39 Club’, with Novak Djokovic and Lionel Messi as co-presidents, is a dangerous club. Who would want to be part of it? What guarantee is
PARIS – Come Monday, he will be the world’s tenth-ranked tennis player, but the greatest contribution Flavio Cobolli is making to his sport has nothing to do with rankings or results, but rather with his joy and charisma. In a
PARIS – A dream come true: Alexander Zverev won the Roland Garros title on Sunday, lifting his first Grand Slam trophy – a goal he had pursued for years and which he once thought he would never achieve. But, now
PARIS – What is happening to tennis? Roland Garros leaves us with a disturbing conclusion: that gentleman’s sport is going through a strangely violent phase. And no one seems willing or able to slow down the escalation. The days of
PARIS – Sunday’s Roland Garros final is preceded by drama and tension: drama, because Italy’s Matteo Arnaldi withdrew from Friday’s semi-finals due to a virus; and tension, because Germany’s Alexander Zverev has the opportunity of a lifetime against another Italian,
PARIS – Fairytales do exist in tennis: there is perhaps no better way to describe the story of Poland’s Maja Chwalinska, a player who is currently ranked 113th in the world and was deep in depression five years ago, but
PARIS – Roland Garros was Rafael Nadal’s “domain” from 2005 to 2024, and even into 2025, with the tournament organising a memorable farewell ceremony for him. But the Spaniard is always present: if not through the premiere of his Netflix
PARIS – When you try something you like, you want to try it again. And again, and again. When someone like Joao Fonseca reaches the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time, he wants to do it again.
PARIS – The Roland Garros tournament has stripped Paraguayan Daniel Vallejo of half the prize money he won for reaching the second round, claiming that his comments about female chair umpires, made in an interview with CLAY, are ‘unacceptable’. ‘It
PARIS – He thought he would never be an elite tennis player again; he thought his story was over. And that is why Matteo Berrettini was overcome with joy on Saturday after securing an epic victory over Argentina’s Francisco Comesaña
PARIS – Is Novak Djokovic tired? Now that’s news, but following his earliest exit from Roland Garros in 16 years, the Serbian’s future on the tour is uncertain. “I don’t know,” he replied twice when asked by journalists after the
PARIS – With Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic out of the running, you have to go back to Roland Garros 2004 to find a more unpredictable tournament on the Parisian clay: the French Open, wild, unpredictable and more open than
