Is Alcaraz the best tennis player of the year? That is debatable. His US Open and the Masters 1000 in Madrid and Miami, in addition to the trophy that the ATP gave him this Wednesday as recognition of the year-end
The scenario facing men’s tennis in the twilight of 2022 is as unusual as the season itself: the number one will be a teenager who can witness his achievement from his armchair at home, or a veteran who was on
She is the best South American tennis player of the moment and one of the best Brazilians ever, but people’s recognition might not be fair at all: “In Brazil, if you’re not Guga (Kuerten) or Ayrton Senna, you’re not enough,”.
SANTIAGO, CHILE – “How does it feel to break a racquet?” the moderator of the conversation asks Fernando Gonzalez. “It’s a relief. Now I can say it. And well, also because you didn’t buy them”, says the Chilean, former world
NEW YORK – Canada’s Leylah Fernández hides her arms through the sleeves of her t-shirt. Right after the entrance of the US Open’s media centre, in the interview area, the blast of the air conditioning feels very strong. It always
NEW YORK – The happy hormones are having a visible effect on Nadia Podoroska. The dopamine and endorphins were less present in her body in the last year, because of a series of injuries that kept her out of competition.
“Man, look at you! You’re huge, you look like a bodybuilder.” Chilean TV host Martín Cárcamo was very surprised when he met Marcelo Ríos again after a while, in a gym in Sarasota. The interviewer of the show “De Tú
Just like an amateur tennis player’s feelings before playing the weekend tournament at the club of a lifetime. Roger Federer loves the run-up to a tennis match: tying his laces, putting on his bandana, looking in the mirror and saying
NEW YORK – Daniel Elahi Galan has always been a vegetarian. His parents raised him without meat in his diet, and he wants to extend that kind of upbringing to his children. If he ever becomes a father, of course,
NEW YORK – When Carlos Alcaraz felt a duty to win, he lost. When he didn’t see the court as a playground, he fared the worst of the year. In Montreal, he would speak candidly after losing in his opener
NEW YORK – Frances Tiafoe tells it with a full smile. His thick accent and all the colloquial sayings he uses, makes even a native speaker struggle to fully understand him: ” I felt like the world stopped. I couldn’t
There is something perhaps as complicated as being a tennis player’s coach: being his agent. Chilean Patricio Apey, who modeled careers such as those of Argentine Gaston Gaudio, German Alexander Zverev and today that of Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, knows it
