Who is Thiago Tirante, the man who caused one of the biggest upsets in the run-up to the US Open by knocking out Novak Djokovic in Cincinnati? Tirante, an Argentine, is a tennis optimist, someone who, with a single sentence,...
Iga Swiatek appears to have woken up from the nightmare just in time. She will enter the final stretch of the season with Serena Williams in her sights and a chance to re-establish herself as the defining player of her...
When Victoria Mboko won the WTA 1000 in Canada a year ago, her career changed. The Canadian broke into the tennis elite, gained popularity and secured major sponsorship deals. But of those days she had always dreamed of, the memories...
BARCELONA – Five decades have passed, but Spain’s Manuel Orantes has not forgotten how his relationship with Argentina’s Guillermo Vilas went from a close friendship to total and definitive estrangement. “He started undervaluing me after I had helped him,” Orantes...
LONDON – Rafael Nadal does not have many fans in the United States because he does not promote himself the way Federer or Djokovic do. That is the opinion of Zach Heinzerling, director of ‘Rafa’, the Netflix docuseries that delves...
Novak Djokovic is still pushing for a revolution in tennis. No more marathon matches or six-game sets. He wants to shake the sport to its foundations to prevent it from being left behind by younger generations. “We should change the...
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