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
Federer’s pending farewell, Dominic Stricker’s Swiss dream: “It would’ve been great to share in our home country”
As a child, Roger Federer posters adorned his bedroom walls. As an adult, Swiss Dominic Stricker inevitably imagined the scenario that would bring him together on the court with his idol in his retirement from tennis. That farewell that did
“My life became such a circus I could’t live with” – interview with Bjorn Borg
interview with Bjorn Borg | Announcing his retirement from professional tennis at the age of 26 after winning five Wimbledon and six Roland Garros titles. A shock for rivals and fans. A relief for Bjorn Borg: "People asking me for
Lorenzo Musetti, marble backhand and a hidden dream: “I wanted to be an actor”
Is there art in sport and tennis? Yes, of course there is. Is there marble in a backhand? Well, that sounds a bit strange, although when you delve into the life of Lorenzo Musetti, the great promise of Italian tennis,
Tsitsipas and the “donkey’s patience”, the weapon to storm Roland Garros
BARCELONA - Stefanos Tsitsipas has found a new weapon to add victories on clay. It combines the teachings of the animal kingdom with a theological virtue, and is summed up with a Greek expression: donkey's patience. Donkey's? Yes, donkey's. It's not
“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.
When you find “more excitement” in tennis after leaving the nightlife behind – in depth interview with Liam Broady
Putting away the adrenaline and surprises that brings the nightlife at the peak of youth is a sacrifice that has paid off for Liam Broady: "I spent too much time in the clubs and in the bars. Now I find
“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