MELBOURNE – Elena Rybakina can finally put the 2023 Australian Open final behind her. Tonight, she faced Aryna Sabalenka once again for the title in Melbourne – a déjà vu of what happened three years ago. The big difference this
MELBOURNE – Aryna Sabalenka is the contemporary queen of Australia, even after losing the 2025 final — and with one more match still to play before she can lift the trophy again in 2026. On Thursday night in Melbourne, the
Tennis is one of the few industries where the employee holds power over the employer, as it is the player who hires the coach, not the other way around. It’s a complex dynamic—Elena Rybakina knows it well. She pays the
Goran Ivanišević shed some light on the dark situation involving Kazakh tennis player Elena Rybakina and her coach Stefano Vukov: “It’s a very sad and strange story.” The 2001 Wimbledon champion had a brief stint as the 25-year-old player’s coach.
PARIS – It’s not hard to understand why Roger Federer prefers the warm waters of Southeast Asia to six consecutive days of cold and rain in Paris, but the truth is that, beyond being retired from tennis and enjoying the
LONDON – During a Wimbledon edition with less political discussion than expected, one of the Ukrainian tennis key actors spiced up with a series of allegations: “We share locker rooms with people who want our families dead and our people
LONDON – Roger Federer returned to his second home. Wimbledon welcomed his favorite. For the first time as a retired tennis player, the top male champion of the third Grand Slam of the year visited the All England Club during
The best in Miami, the best in the US mini season, the best of the year. Daniil Medvedev is the number one in the race to Turin with an impressive streak in 2023: five finals in a row with four
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 – Aryna Sabalenka did learn some important lessons after her last Grand Slam stumble. Lessons that on Saturday night she surely used to her advantage to win the first Grand Slam of her career. In New York last September,
NEW YORK – With apologies to Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, Alexandr Bublik is one of the men of the moment. With an almost completely melted ice cream that he devoured in the first few minutes of the interview, the
