PARIS – How romantic Paris is on a rainy day – and how rainy London is! Both clichés are being overtaken by reality: neither the spectators nor the players believe that Roland Garros is a romantic place today, and by
PARIS – There are three culprits, in chronological order: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. Two of them are still competing, and there is one who, because of the juggernaut they created together, has trouble getting out of bed.
PARIS – He is not lacking in confidence: he calls himself a ‘Formula 1’ car. Mariano Navone, a 23-year-old Argentine, set a record in Paris: he is the first player in the open era of tennis to make his Grand
PARIS – It’s Rafael Nadal’s voice, it’s him, unmistakable. And the video shows him speaking on centre court at Roland Garros, where the Spaniard has won 14 of his 14 finals. What you hear is astonishing. I own fucking Roland
PARIS – Wimbledon and Rafael Nadal will not meet this year, but they will probably do so in 2025 to say goodbye for good. Rafael Nadal does not want to risk his most prized bet this year, the Paris Olympics,
PARIS – No one knows, not even he himself, if this was the end, but Rafael Nadal set a new milestone at Roland Garros on Monday: in what was his worst tournament defeat of his life, the Spaniard thrilled and
“Rafa, what are your plans this summer with the boat, where do you plan to sail to? Rafael Nadal looked at looked at the person who had just asked him the question and, with some anger, a little offended, replied: “But
Rafael Nadal‘s great adventure in tennis seems to have no end: the Spaniard announced on Saturday that there is a “strong possibility” that the tournament starting tomorrow will be his last Roland Garros, but did not completely close the possibility
At first glance, only a specialist in hieroglyphics, Sanskrit, Aramaic and, why not, the Higgs Boson, would be able to understand the Rafael Nadal of these weeks, capable of deciphering the meaning of what he says. That constant “no, but
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
Haruspices no longer exist, but they would be very useful in the case of Rafael Nadal. The Spaniard has been basically out of the tennis tour for almost a year and a half, but in the midst of a discourse
Is it the end? Rafael Nadal says no, that he tries to “look to the future while maintaining the illusion”, but the contradictions in his public message are now undeniable. So much so, that what the Nadal traffic light shows
