It is the year 2024, Rafael Nadal returns to tennis. It sounds like a new story, and it is, although it is also an old one: the Spaniard has done it many, many times before, being out of the tour
LONDON – Christopher Eubanks spoke a while back about a big desire. “To be able to tell people that don’t know tennis:'(I played) a quarters of Wimbledon’. That’s a different level of respect,” he told Frances Tiafoe and Ben Shelton
MANACOR (Mallorca, Spain) – Novak Djokovic is better than Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal because he won more titles than them, but the Swiss and the Spaniard are more trascendental in the history of tennis than the Serb. Who says so?
PARIS – Dedicated to those who, in his youth, turned their faces away when they found out he was Serbian. Dedicated to those who in the 1990s decided to bomb Belgrade. Dedicated to the Australian government who in January 2022
Tennis has always had four unique venues: Melbourne, Paris, London and New York. That’s where the drama and glory is concentrated, and that’s where you have to be whenever you can. But this year we have to add a fifth
BARCELONA – Stefanos Tsitsipas has found a new weapon to add victories on clay. It combines the teachings of the animal kingdom with a theological virtue, and is summed up with a Greek expression: donkey’s patience. Donkey’s? Yes, donkey’s. It’s
When a pregnancy changes your career and injects you the dose of motivation you were missing. “I want to win eight more Grand Slams”. Measured by the most important yardstick, the major titles, Naomi Osaka is the most successful tennis
DOHA – Andy Murray continues with the perfume left over from the Australian Open: he smells of victory after long battles with players much younger than him. In his debut at the ATP 250 in Doha he defeated Italian Lorenzo
DOHA – Rafael Nadal’s withdrawal from the Las Vegas exhibition against Carlos Alcaraz in the North American desert indicates that he will not be at Indian Wells, although it has not been made official. He continues to recover from the
DOHA – The world number one once again drove the steamroller, and did so by taking away a record held by Chris Evert for more than four decades: “Sorry, Chris”. At the WTA 500 in Doha, Iga Swiatek spent less
MELBOURNE – Ten years ago, the whole tennis world was talking about Horacio Zeballos. In February 2013, in the coastal city of Viña del Mar, Rafael Nadal came back on tour after seven months of inactivity due to injuries and
MELBOURNE – When Novak Djokovic arrived in Australia, he did so with a nervousness he had not experienced before. He didn’t know what the crowd’s reaction was going to be like. He had no idea what was going to happen
