The best male player in the history of tennis without a Grand Slam title is Chilean Marcelo Ríos, Greg Rusedski says. Getting to world number one cannot compare to anything else, despite the Olympic gold and another 23 ATP titles
NEW YORK – Novak Djokovic never faced the burden of chasing a first Grand Slam the way Alexander Zverev does today. The Serb lifted his first major in 2008, when at the end of January he snapped the streak of
Toni Nadal swears up and down that he will hardly ever return to coaching, that he cannot find the motivation to spend weeks and weeks with a player on the tour. But he has not forgotten his achievements as Felix
PARIS – Alexander Zverev was right. Novak Djokovic can play tennis. The Serbian is into his 51st Grand Slam semifinal, just two wins away from his 25th major title, playing old-school tennis—how it used to be done on slow courts.
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
For decades, he has been traveling the tennis tour, first as a player and later as a coach, and Argentine Javier Frana (58) has no doubts: Europeans should reconsider their behavior. And World No. 2 Alexander Zverev should complain less.
Jakub Mensik met Lionel Messi, defeated his idol Novak Djokovic in a final, and celebrated his Miami Masters 1000 title at a nightclub where rapper 50 Cent performed. It’s hard to imagine a more spectacular weekend in Miami for a
Daniel Altmaier does not believe Jannik Sinner had bad intentions or that the Italian tried to cheat the system. However, the German understands why many players are upset following Sinner’s positive doping test: “We all deserve the same treatment. That
Francisco Comesaña could be nominated for the Best Post-Match Interview of the Year award. —How did you manage to turn around such a tough match against Alexander Zverev?—I kept repeating to myself the whole match: “How good it is to
RIO DE JANEIRO – Alexander Zverev abandons his serious expression for a moment, flashes a German smile and blurts out three words: ‘Best of five’. His interlocutor bursts out laughing. It is Monday in Rio de Janeiro, the city is
RIO DE JANEIRO – The children crowd against the glass, open their eyes wide and ask enthusiastically, vociferously: ‘How’s Fonseca doing, how’s the game going?’. It is Sunday 16th February 2025 in Rio de Janeiro, those children, dozens and dozens
RIO DE JANEIRO – Alexander Zverev is not satisfied with the decision of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in the “Sinner case”. “For me, it’s either you have to decide was it his fault or was it not his fault”,’ Zverev told CLAY in Rio
