Nadal hopes to be ready in November to start his farewell tour in 2024: “We are very happy”.
PARIS - Carlos Alcaraz was playing in the central stadium at Roland Garros when a picture of a smiling Rafael Nadal, lying in a hospital bed, reached the mobile phones of journalists in Paris. And Nadal turned 37 years old
Thiago Seyboth Wild, the bombshell tennis doesn’t know how to defuse
PARIS - In the tournament of his life, Thiago Seyboth Wild missed the opportunity of a lifetime. First, because he had dominated the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka for much of the match on Saturday and had a real chance to move
Tension in the stands, tension in the press room: the temperature is rising and rising at Roland Garros.
PARIS - In the middle of the night in Paris, an American tennis player gives the French crowd the silent signal and is dismissed with a thunderous boo. In the middle of the day, a journalist tells a Russian tennis
Alcaraz? Neither Djokovic, nor Nadal, nor Federer: “It’s 100 per cent me, and not a copy of any player’s shots”.
A short video is circulating on social media in which Carlos Alcaraz is asked what his dream is. The Spaniard answers without hesitation that what he aspires to is to be one of the greatest players in the history of
Thiago Seyboth Wild’s mistake on his biggest day – CLAY Analysis
PARIS - As Thiago Seyboth Wild was shaking off Daniil Medvedev with serves and forehands on the Roland Garros Centre Court, one question kept coming up from spectators and reporters alike: who is this guy? Logical. The Brazilian arrived in Paris
“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