RÍO DE JANEIRO – Under the tropical heat, with Christ the Redeemer embracing everyone from the top of Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro is further proof of the passion that tennis awakens in Latin America. Does the ATP know or understand
RIO DE JANEIRO – Gustavo Kuerten grabs his arm and says: “I’ve got goose bumps”. He is talking about Joao Fonseca. And Kuerten opens his eyes, smiles and says without hesitation: he would have been incapable of winning Roland Garros
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
BUENOS AIRES – When I see Joao Fonseca playing, when I see him become champion in Buenos Aires, winning his first ATP title, the first thing I think about is how good he is. Yes, how good he is! And
BUENOS AIRES – Tennis needs to modernise because it hasn’t changed for decades, believes Diego Schwartzman, officially a former tennis player as of Thursday 13 February 2025. And in that plan, the Argentine is counting on the leadership of Novak
BUENOS AIRES – Diego Schwartzman woke up on Wednesday 12th February 2025 and one of the first things he did was order some pills for his stomach pain from a delivery service. The idea that he was starting the last
MELBOURNE – It wasn’t Brad Gilbert’s ‘winning ugly’ that he needed, because he wouldn’t know how to do it, but Joao Fonseca came up just short of passing a test of maturity in Australia on Thursday: winning by playing badly.
BUENOS AIRES – Juan Carlos Ferrero limps slightly to the interview. He injured a cartilage in his right knee in January 2023 playing padel, underwent surgery a few weeks ago and therefore missed the Australian Open, which he followed
BUENOS AIRES – Between Paris and Paris, Carlos Alcaraz prefers the golden Paris, the Paris of Olympic gold. “It’s a dream for me to bring Olympic gold to my country,” said the Spaniard in Buenos Aires on Monday, who has
BUENOS AIRES – Money moves the world, they say. And tennis, of course. Martín Jaite, director of the ATP 250 in Buenos Aires, a vibrant, crowd-pulling tournament that is looking to jump to the 500 category, knows this well, but
Rafael Nadal is in a trap that is easy to get out of. But not really, it is actually extremely difficult to do so, because Nadal is a prisoner of a stalemate between three forces that rule his being, his
