MELBOURNE – Jannik Sinner champion is starting to become a repetitive title: on Sunday the Italian won the Australian Open for the second consecutive year, in a final that confirmed how much the German Alexander Zverev is weighed down by
MELBOURNE – There is no hesitation from world number two and Australian Open finalist Alexander Zverev. ‘I’m ready,’ he warns. Ready for what? To win his first Grand Slam title, to be the champion the world has been demanding of
Mariana Enriquez is not only a hugely successful novelist and one of the leading figures in horror literature over the past decade; she’s also a passionate tennis fan with sharp opinions: “Tennis fans are very authoritarian, and they get upset
NEW YORK – The sequence is highly unusual: a journalist writes that a tennis star beat up his partner. The tennis player sues the journalist, who launches an online fundraiser to finance his legal defence. The crowdfunding is a success,
PARIS – Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz made history in a big way by winning Roland Garros on Sunday as he became the youngest player in the professional era to lift three Grand Slam titles on three different surfaces. Alcaraz, 21, beat
PARIS – No one can deny that Carlos Alcaraz is a confident young man, and he does nothing to hide it either. In that sense, the Spaniard is much more like Serbia’s Novak Djokovic than his compatriot Rafael Nadal. ‘There
PARIS – When Carlos Alcaraz won the 2022 US Open, a new era of tennis was born without the old one having died yet, but with either Alcaraz or Jannik Siner in the final of the French Open on Sunday, the
Rafael Nadal‘s great adventure in tennis seems to have no end: the Spaniard announced on Saturday that there is a “strong possibility” that the tournament starting tomorrow will be his last Roland Garros, but did not completely close the possibility
Déjà vu in Paris. When Rafael Nadal and Alexander Zverev were paired in the first round of Roland Garros, a mixture of murmurs, laughter and expressions of surprise was heard in the audience present in the halls of the Orangerie.
Better to wait for what the German judiciary has to say before talking further about Alexander Zverev’s case, believes Yannick Hanfmann, a teammate of the world No. 5 on Germany’s Davis Cup team. “Zverev has a trial in May. If
His explosion as a teenager and better numbers than the “Big Three” when they were under 20 years old have made Carlos Alcaraz to be measured differently. The media, the fans and his rivals do it. But above all, he
When news began to circulate in 2021 that tennis would be portrayed in depth on Netflix, many rubbed their hands together. The precedent of “Drive to Survive”, an engaging immersion into the world of Formula 1, allowed for excitement. In
