MELBOURNE – Anyone remember wii Sports? Well, anyone who’s forgotten it can recapture the memory these days at the Australian Open, which ‘gamifies’ its players for live matches. It happens every day at the first Grand Slam of the year,...
MELBOURNE – On the night the tennis world recognised him as the sport’s newest star, Joao Fonseca was speechless. ‘If I were to travel to Brazil and I wanted to buy your talent, how much money would I need?’ asked...
MELBOURNE – A few months ago, Matthew McCounaghey gave Nick Kyrgios some advice: what if you fell in love with tennis, what if you made a conscious decision to fall in love with tennis? But the Australian went another way:...
MELBOURNE – Nicolas Jarry and Jannik Sinner’s versions of their doping cases clash in Australia. First it was the Chilean who said: ‘I would have liked the same support he had. Then came the counterattack from the world number one:...
MELBOURNE – The pursuit of beauty can lead to tragedy, examples of which abound in history, literature, film or music. Also tennis, where no one embodies tragic beauty better than Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas: playing beautiful no longer works, he discovered...
MELBOURNE – Broken rackets, self-harming, and angry outbursts were the reflection of his torment. Deep down, Andrey Rublev was living in hell, and he can now admit it openly: “I saw no reason to live.” The world’s No. 9 player...
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