“Guga” Seyboth Wild wows Roland Garros central stadium with feat of knocking out Medvedev
His nickname is not "Guga", but he deserves to go by it. Thiago Seyboth Wild, a 23-year-old Brazilian, wowed the Roland Garros central stadium on Tuesday by knocking out one of the greats of tennis, Russia's Daniil Medvedev. Twenty-six years ago,
Twelve months, twelve interviews, twelve sentences: CLAY’s global impact on its first anniversary
PARIS - Can we ask you to wish us happy birthday? We've just celebrated our first birthday, and we're very happy. We are doing the journalism and the site that we set out to do when CLAY was just a
Nadal’s hidden injury and what Djokovic really needs
Tennis has always had four unique venues: Melbourne, Paris, London and New York. That's where the drama and glory is concentrated, and that's where you have to be whenever you can. But this year we have to add a fifth
Forget the birthday cakes, focus on the mute women
As weekend entertainment for tweeters with time to spare, the alleged birthday cake affair may have been attractive, even if its substance and importance were zero: there was nothing to criticise or object to about the Madrid tournament in that
“I should have started psychotherapy many years ago” – an in-depth interview with Dusan Lajovic
From the most succesful moment of his career, to a dark journey inside his head. The story of Dusan Lajovic is finally getting back to a happy zone: "I got into a loop of being mentally in a bad place.
We were happy and didn’t know it: Nadal and the shiver that runs down tennis’ backside
A shiver runs down the spine of tennis: Roland Garros without Rafael Nadal ? It's perfectly possible. Absent from Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Madrid, and now Rome, he only has Paris left in the clay-court season. And there's a serious chance
“Nadal and Djokovic have something in the brain that doesn’t belong to humans” – interview with Magnus Norman
There is something about Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic that is not typical of Homo Sapiens. Magnus Norman believes it, a man who after becoming the world number two and the French Open finalist as a pro player, has studied the
Rescuing the Davis Cup: “The essence has been lost a bit, we have to recover it”, says Tennium
BUENOS AIRES - Shakira, Bizarrap and the Davis Cup. There is no little that has gone wrong for Gerard Piqué in recent months, although there is no reason to be alarmed about the former Barcelona player's future: he has many
“Tennis needs to be quicker” – interview with Robin Haase
Having lived nearly two decades of tennis career, Robin Haase is sure of one thing: "Rules need to change." The 35-year-old Dutchman with a past on the Players' Council, reflects in this interview with CLAY that the sports needs to give more
Federer was not an “entertaining” tennis player. Who says so? Marcelo Rios
SANTIAGO, Chile - Not Roger Federer. Instead, Nick Kyrgios. The concept of entertainment in tennis for Marcelo Ríos lies in the personalities of the present that are similiar to the one he showed on the courts in the past: "Federer