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
MELBOURNE – Kei Nishikori admitted Sunday that a year ago he thought about quitting professional tennis. He did so at the press conference following his five-set comeback against Thiago Monteiro in the first round of the Australian Open. Two opposite
MELBOURNE – Chilean Nicolás Jarry believes the ATP and tennis anti-doping authorities were unfair to him and did not treat him the same way they did Italian Jannik Sinner. “I would have liked the same support he got when it
MELBOURNE – With his usual smile and his hair as short as ever, Carlos Alcaraz goes back and forth on the same idea: relax. Alcaraz’s “2025 model” wants to relax, and he will do so on multiple fronts. ‘This move
MELBOURNE – Novak Djokovic lives a paradox in Melbourne. It’s a city that brings him both great memories and others that are traumatic, humiliating, and painful. The latest of his nightmares to come to light: a claim of food poisoning
MELBOURNE – Setting goals that are too high can be dangerous. A double-edged sword. Just ask Naomi Osaka, who started 2025 with goals as far away as when she returned to tennis. “I want to win eight more Grand Slams,”
The greatest threat to disrupting the duopoly of Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz in the near future is an 18-year-old Brazilian. Joao Fonseca, the new kid on the block, is the most promising teenager in the men’s tennis tour. “I
What happened in January 2022 with Novak Djokovic in Australia was the most ‘complicated’ experience of his life. Rafael Nadal may well still be playing in 2025. And the current Davis Cup situation ‘hurts’, because the story should not have
PARIS – Is it the last season, is it the last episode? Not to be ruled out. The 60th match between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic comes in an unusual situation, a second round, and with both in very different
There is something very clear, indisputable, when it comes to Novak Djokovic: never believe he is lost when he seems lost. Roger Federer can say a lot about that, for example, after that 2011 US Open semi-final and, above all,
There are matches you never forget, and that’s what happens to Daniil Medvedev: he is clear about his training method and his goals, he is happy with new technical details he is adding to his game, but more often than
