“Age doesn’t help, but Nadal never ceases to amaze” – Horacio Zeballos knows what’s the Spaniard like in comebacks
MELBOURNE - Ten years ago, the whole tennis world was talking about Horacio Zeballos. In February 2013, in the coastal city of Viña del Mar, Rafael Nadal came back on tour after seven months of inactivity due to injuries and
Champion’s splash: Tommy Paul and the memory of the iconic Courier’s celebration
MELBOURNE - The city is in full swing. Offices are emptying and bars are filling up, trams are at capacity, and traffic is heavy but never stops flowing. Melbourne's rush hour can be felt from a privileged place. In the middle
Nadal and Djokovic think differently about the Grand Slam record
MELBOURNE - Nadal and Djokovic have met 59 times in their lives on every possible stage, have the same number of tennis titles (92) and are neck-and-neck for the record number of major trophies. The race that Novak Djokovic and Rafael
Mission: Possible – Top tennis players bet on a new Grand Slam champion for 2023
MELBOURNE - Winning a Grand Slam has been one of the toughest challenges in men's sport for the past 20 years. Will it still be that way in 2023? Almost all top tennis players are betting on a new Grand
Mixed tennis love: the players want more United Cup
SYDNEY - Freshness, novelty and entertainment is what the United Cup is bringing. The mixed teams tennis competition, which fuses elements of its predecessors, has those who have tried it very happy. They love it. The last great memory of the
Djokovic is already number one… in 2023
Novak Djokovic is, according to the computer, the fifth best tennis player today, but facing 2023 he is the clear favorite to be the best of all. The fact: as early as the Australian Open, the next big event, he could
Goodbye Carlitos, welcome Carlos: the Alcaraz acid test
Is Alcaraz the best tennis player of the year? That is debatable. His US Open and the Masters 1000 in Madrid and Miami, in addition to the trophy that the ATP gave him this Wednesday as recognition of the year-end number
Nadal is owed something, but he may never get it
Rafael Nadal's life was, in that respect, rather dull and disappointing. Shanghai, London and Torino. The Masters, which is his name even though every now and then the ATP insists on renaming it, was neither kind nor generous to the most
Everything Pakistan tennis owes to Aisam ul-haq Qureshi: “I beat Roger Federer”
The sum of "Pakistan" and "sport" is almost as obvious as a 1+1: cricket. There is, however, one man who has been challenging the country's sporting mathematics for almost a quarter of a century, Aisam ul-Haq Qureshi. A source of pride
The biggest taboo in tennis? Probably
This is what happened: during the US Open, in an interview of the two CLAY editors with Nadia Podoroska, the Argentine tennis player mentioned her girlfriend. It was a very relaxed and natural conversation. As if we were comfortable in our