LONDON – Grand Slam finals best-of-five in women’s tennis? A Wimbledon champion believes female players are physically ready for the challenge. “Women are absolutely capable of playing best-of-five sets,” said Marion Bartoli in an interview with CLAY and RG Media
The name Natascha Zvereva was once again typed into computers and phones around the world on Saturday. Small consolation for American Amanda Anisimova: back in 1988, Germany’s Steffi Graf needed only 32 minutes to sweep the Belarusian off the court
PARIS – Iga Swiatek is playing for something huge at this Roland Garros: becoming the only woman in tennis history to win the title four years in a row. Even if she insists on treating it like any other tournament
MELBOURNE – Looking to make up for lost time, Emma Raducanu will have a great chance against Iga Swiatek in the third round of the Australian Open. ‘It’s going to be a great shot of adrenaline,’ said the British 18-year-old
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
Mariana Enriquez is not only a hugely successful novelist and one of the leading figures in horror literature over the past decade; she’s also a passionate tennis fan with sharp opinions: “Tennis fans are very authoritarian, and they get upset
PARIS – The tears of anguish at losing gold on Thursday changed to tears of joy and relief on Friday at winning bronze. Iga Swiatek walked a path of different emotions and capped her Olympic adventure with a spot on
PARIS – What if we put an end to best-of-five-set matches in tennis and men played, like women, best-of-three sets? ‘Everyone would be happy: the players because they would avoid those marathon matches, women because they could gain much more
PARIS – ‘A match worthy of a final,’ said Chris Evert once Poland’s Iga Swiatek’s triumph over Japan’s Naomi Osaka was a done deal. And a match to remember, because Swiatek gave the Parisian crowd a double lesson: in tennis
PARIS – It’s Rafael Nadal’s voice, it’s him, unmistakable. And the video shows him speaking on centre court at Roland Garros, where the Spaniard has won 14 of his 14 finals. What you hear is astonishing. I own fucking Roland
Germany’s Alexander Zverev is definitely the new taboo in tennis. Simply by reading the following answers from four top players. Stefanos Tsitsipas: “I won’t talk about it. I am completely unfamiliar with the situation. I have nothing to comment. Grigor
You don’t need a PhD in meteorology to understand that it is not advisable to organize an outdoor women’s tennis tournament in the Mexican Caribbean during November. It is enough to google a couple of sentences to understand that the
