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
“Homosexuality in men’s tennis would be accepted” – An in depth interview with Taylor Fritz
When Taylor Fritz was a teenager, he only saw four or five players capable of winning a Grand Slam. Today, the North-American sees the picture differently: "Big titles are more winnable than they used to be." In an in-depth interview with CLAY,
From tennis to paddle: Thomas Johansson recounts his second life and complains about the “chaos” of a growing sport
Change the racquet for the “paddle” and leave disappointed: it happened to a Grand Slam champion who, when he took an important position in the world of paddle, realized the organizational disorder and the lack of collaborative spirit of his
Federer, Nadal, Del Potro, Kournikova, Sabatini, Graf, Ríos, Agassi: An unpublished conversation with Nick Bollettieri
The tennis of the last four decades would be different without Nick Bollettieri, who died on December 4th 2022 at the age of 91. When it came to having a conversation about tennis, Bollettieri was one of the most interesting people
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
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
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