MIAMI – Chile’s Alejandro Tabilo secured a confidence-boosting victory: his first win over a top-20 player in six months, and at a major event such as the Miami Open. His connection with his new coach has been key to a
How much more money do you need when you’re a multimillionaire? How much sense does it make to keep accumulating wealth? These questions apply to Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas, but also to a few other players. And to the ATP. The
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
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
SANTIAGO, Chile – Two very similar situations led to diametrically opposite results. Two cases of tremendous disrespect to ATP officials with shouting and swearing. A tale of two cities 15,000 kilometers apart: Arthur Fils in Santiago, Chile; Andrey Rublev, in
With his tongue out and shaking his head from side to side. Eyes closed. Andrey Rublev’s celebration was an adrenaline rush. It was the end of the roller coaster ride, after that he went on to exhaustion and the desire
PARIS – In the middle of the night in Paris, an American tennis player gives the French crowd the silent signal and is dismissed with a thunderous boo. In the middle of the day, a journalist tells a Russian tennis
PARIS – Can we ask you to wish us happy birthday? We’ve just celebrated our first birthday, and we’re very happy. We are doing the journalism and the site that we set out to do when CLAY was just a
MELBOURNE – Winning a Grand Slam has been one of the toughest challenges in men’s sport for the past 20 years. Will it still be that way in 2023? Almost all top tennis players are betting on a new Grand
When you sit down with Mats Wilander to talk tennis, there’s one thing you can be sure of: whether he gets it right or wrong, his predictions and analysis will be sharp, interesting and entertaining. “He’s starving! After what happened
RIYADH – The outlook for Russian tennis players ahead of Wimbledon 2023 is not encouraging. For now, they will remain banned from participating in the Grand Slam that starts in early July. The players had a meeting with the directors
The scenario facing men’s tennis in the twilight of 2022 is as unusual as the season itself: the number one will be a teenager who can witness his achievement from his armchair at home, or a veteran who was on
