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
“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
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
An end to orange hate: Rome title for Medvedev and a real chance in Paris
Twenty titles in twenty cities. Daniil Medvedev added his twentieth professional trophy at the Rome Masters 1000. And it won't be the most important one, but it will be an immensely significant one for the Russian's career for winning on
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
Nadal misses Roland Garros for the first time in 19 years and puts his career on pause: “I don’t deserve to finish like this”
Rafael Nadal's nightmare came true on Thursday: Nadal misses Roland Garros, affected by a psoas injury suffered in January from which he has not been able to recover. But the nightmare goes even further: he will not play until the
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
“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
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