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.
MELBOURNE – On the night the tennis world recognised him as the sport’s newest star, Joao Fonseca was speechless. ‘If I were to travel to Brazil and I wanted to buy your talent, how much money would I need?’ asked
Brazilian Joao Lucas Reis, ranked 401st in the world and the 11th-best tennis player in Brazil, publicly came out as gay. He is the first active male professional tennis player to openly acknowledge his homosexuality. He made the announcement by
NEW YORK – They were days of emotional contrasts for Beatriz Haddad Maia in New York: sporting success and grief over a loss. The Brazilian achieved one of the best results of her career at the US Open 2024 by
LONDON – Brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wild was a storm at Roland Garros. Tennis and extra-tennis storm, because after his great first-round victory over Russian Daniil Medvedev, a complex story of judicial background was installed in the international media. “I think
PARIS – Brazilian women’s tennis is no longer just about Maria Esther Bueno when it comes to major milestones: by reaching the semi-finals at Roland Garros, Beatriz Haddad Maia on Wednesday became the first player from her country in 55
PARIS – In the tournament of his life, Thiago Seyboth Wild missed the opportunity of a lifetime. First, because he had dominated the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka for much of the match on Saturday and had a real chance to move
PARIS – As Thiago Seyboth Wild was shaking off Daniil Medvedev with serves and forehands on the Roland Garros Centre Court, one question kept coming up from spectators and reporters alike: who is this guy? Logical. The Brazilian arrived in
His nickname is not “Guga”, but he deserves to go by it. Thiago Seyboth Wild, a 23-year-old Brazilian, wowed the Roland Garros central stadium on Tuesday by knocking out one of the greats of tennis, Russia’s Daniil Medvedev. Twenty-six years
Having lived nearly two decades of tennis career, Robin Haase is sure of one thing: “Rules need to change.” The 35-year-old Dutchman with a past on the Players’ Council, reflects in this interview with CLAY that the sports needs to give
SANTIAGO, Chile – After losing in the second round of the Argentina Open, Dominic Thiem ‘s training videos were all over social media. It was raining heavily in the Argentine capital, and the Austrian and his coach, Chilean Nicolás Massu,
Rafael Nadal’s words from eleven years ago are evidence of a change. Or perhaps a contradiction. Back then, at the age of 25, the Spaniard complained, day in, day out, that the calendar did not give him enough time to
