Will any player be able to break into the dominance of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner? Will a third force emerge to form a new Big 3? The questions reach the Spaniard attached to the name of one possible contender:
MADRID – In an era dominated by Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, and with the ATP set to further cut small tournaments, Jaume Munar raises his voice for the ‘middle class’ of the circuit. “We work as hard than the
When Elena Vesnina asks Carlos Alcaraz if his heart ‘is taken,’ there can be several interpretations. One might think that it does tennis no harm to talk a little about personal life, about the human and the divine, instead of
MADRID – The Arthur Ashe Stadium clock shows 12 minutes into the US Open final between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner. The Spaniard is a break up and leads 40-15 on serve. He has started in top form — a
SÃO PAULO – Roberta Fonseca radiates happiness. She can’t contain her joy as she watches her son hold the most important trophy of his young career. While they take the family photo on court, she kisses her child Joao. Joao
If he weren’t a tennis player, Ethan Quinn would be a professional chef. Or a barista. Beyond tennis, cooking is his great passion — and if Carlos Alcaraz or Jannik Sinner wanted to test his culinary skills, the American would
MADRID – It is 8:43 a.m. on a Wednesday morning when Jon Rahm tries to calm the nerves of an employee of the DP World Tour, the European golf circuit. She is nervous because the Spanish Open Pro-Am tournament should
SÃO PAULO – There was a time when Roger Federer‘s coach was looking for tennis players to practise with the Swiss player and the response he received was a resounding ‘no’. ‘Peter Lundgren, Federer’s coach, asked us to play with
SÃO PAULO – The excitement surrounding Brazilian tennis today is greater than that generated by Gustavo ‘Guga’ Kuerten a quarter of a century ago. There has never been a better moment, says Fernando Meligeni, a sound player in the 1990s
NEW YORK – Carlos Alcaraz cannot afford to relax. Having the numbers on his side against his biggest rival is no guarantee of anything, warns a former world No. 1 and multiple Grand Slam champion. “I don’t think Carlos can
NEW YORK – The fuel behind Carlos Alcaraz‘s excellent tennis is his own happiness, and one of the things that makes him happy is golf. It is not wrong to conclude that during the demands of a Grand Slam, hitting
NEW YORK – Carlos Alcaraz dominated Italy’s Jannik Sinner with his electric tennis on Sunday, watched by Donald Trump at the stadium, to win the US Open and regain the world number one spot. The Spaniard was far superior to
