Energy and a lot of money: Rafael Nadal doesn’t think like he did before
Rafael Nadal's words from eleven years ago are evidence of a change. Or perhaps a contradiction. Back then, at the age of 25, the Spaniard complained, day in, day out, that the calendar did not give him enough time to disconnect
Rafael Nadal survives dangerous limits: chaos of passion and selfies in Chile
The scene goes like this: Rafael Nadal tries to leave the court where he just played the second of his six Latin American exhibitions. He is protected only by two guards, and there is a crowd mad for contact with
Nadal, Sabatini and how to indulge in life
He started making a name for himself in tennis in 2003, when she had already been retired for seven years. She has already chosen how to live that new and different life, which is life without tennis, and that life
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
On court, on the sofa or maybe the unknown: men’s tennis number one in 2022 will be a novelty
The scenario facing men's tennis in the twilight of 2022 is as unusual as the season itself: the number one will be a teenager who can witness his achievement from his armchair at home, or a veteran who was on
Federer and Nadal, friends forever: the perfect closure to a rivalry born with distance
Smiling, amused, complicit, excited, embraced, united. Bathed in the same tears. What was seen between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal on the final day of the Swiss's career was the perfect ending to a rivalry that began with distance and
Bjorn Borg? He’s my friend, but I don’t want to be like him
Just like an amateur tennis player's feelings before playing the weekend tournament at the club of a lifetime. Roger Federer loves the run-up to a tennis match: tying his laces, putting on his bandana, looking in the mirror and saying to
Nadal is not Federer: “I hope you don’t think my career is over”
Carlos Alcaraz is the new world number one and Roger Federer says goodbye to tennis, but Rafael Nadal wants no confusion: his career continues, he does not plan to retire. "I hope you do not think that my career is over,