“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,
From training with a mattress as a rival to being treated like Nadal: the happiness of Argentinean Facundo Díaz Acosta
PARIS - During the covid-19 pandemic, many things were possible. One example? Being a tennis player and having a mattress as an opponent. Less than three years later, Argentine Facundo Diaz Acosta's opponent is Jason Kubler, a 30-year-old Australian ranked 67th
The war in Ukraine takes centre court at Roland Garros
If you decided overnight to stop watching tennis at Roland Garros and get in a car, you would be at war in just over 18 hours: that's how long it takes to drive from Paris to Lviv, the westernmost city
“Alcaraz is the favorite”: Djokovic appeals to a tactic older than tennis
PARIS - Novak Djokovic knows too many things. He knows, for example, that a couple of properly calibrated sentences can have an impact on an opponent's morale. He knows that taking advantage of the press conference before the start of
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
Guillermo Vilas, a photo that shake his friends and admirers and an open controversy
Reality is tough, reality bites. Especially when it remains hidden and then suddenly becomes evident. This is the case of Guillermo Vilas, Argentine tennis legend and one of the most successful tennis players of all time, winner of four Grand Slam
Playing poorly and becoming champion, the only thing Alcaraz was missing before the dream of winning Roland Garros.
MADRID - "I don't see it," was heard from Carlos Alcaraz's box when German Jan-Lennard Struff was a rampaging tennis nightmare who had silenced the Caja Mágica. But you saw it: Madrid champion and, having passed the all-important subject of
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
Osaka’s gestation: tennis desire and hunger for Grand Slams
When a pregnancy changes your career and injects you the dose of motivation you were missing. "I want to win eight more Grand Slams". Measured by the most important yardstick, the major titles, Naomi Osaka is the most successful tennis player
More dangerous than Federer: Alcaraz puts Nadal and Djokovic on high alert
"A specter is haunting Europe", wrote Karl Marx and Frederick Engels at the end of the 19th century: the ghost was communism, and it would end up haunting the whole world. The "Communist Manifesto" is certainly not something that has passed