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
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,
MELBOURNE – Nadal and Djokovic have met 59 times in their lives on every possible stage, have the same number of tennis titles (92) and are neck-and-neck for the record number of major trophies. The race that Novak Djokovic and
