Natsukashii, the responsibility of Djokovic and Alcaraz
PARIS - Natsukashii. That's what Friday's semi-final between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz at the French Open is all about, taking on the "happy nostalgia" that tennis demands of them, a burden it makes no sense to place on the
Nicolás Jarry on fears: “If you hide them, they end up being part of you” – INTERVIEW IN DEPTH
PARIS - Some interviews should be done next to a couch: quite a paradox in the case of Chilean Nicolas Jarry, because he is living the best moment of his career. Or maybe not so much: Jarry's great present exists
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
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
“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
We were happy and didn’t know it: Nadal and the shiver that runs down tennis’ backside
A shiver runs down the spine of tennis: Roland Garros without Rafael Nadal ? It's perfectly possible. Absent from Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Madrid, and now Rome, he only has Paris left in the clay-court season. And there's a serious chance
“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