HAMBURG – Behind the character Nick Kyrgios plays on TV and social media, there’s a good person. That’s what Alejandro Davidovich Fokina believes. In this interview with CLAY, conducted during the ATP 500 in Hamburg, the Spaniard of Russian descent...
PARIS – Three or more consecutive wins are often enough to spark jokes on the tennis tour. “If someone beats you three times in a row, they’re your daddy”, Ben Shelton joked earlier this year, relieved that Lorenzo Musetti didn’t...
HAMBURG – Gerard Piqué’s vision for changing the Davis Cup ‘wasn’t bad,’ says the man who was in charge of the 2023 and 2024 editions of the century-old tournament. “Piqué‘s vision wasn’t bad. The old Davis Cup format wasn’t working”,...
Tennis is a sport where the mind plays a fundamental role, but Constant Lestienne takes mental strength to levels never seen before in the game: he uses his skills as a mentalist to gain an edge on the tennis court....
What Carlos Alcaraz is doing is impressive. He arrives at the clay court season full of criticism: the old Djokovic knocked him out of Australia, he lost to Draper in Indian Wells, and he disappointed in Miami with a defeat...
One life can hold many lives. You can shake hands with Roger Federer on the tennis court and, years later, throw yourself into the arms of Javier Milei. Argentine Diego Hartfield knows this well. He was first a tennis player,...