MIAMI – Jannik Sinner won the Miami Open and continues to prove he is the best player of this era on hard courts. The Italian keeps adding records: he completed the Sunshine Double and became the first player in history
There are so many statistics in tennis, so many records, that match reports often become filled with useless data that adds very little. But there are times when a single fact says absolutely everything, as is the case with Jannik
MADRID – When you watch Carlos Alcaraz on a tennis court, you see a catalogue of impossible solutions, a staggering physical display and an contagious joy. Yet on the flip side of his brilliance there was sometimes a small weakness:
When Jack Draper unveiled his mural portrait at Indian Wells — a tradition that welcomes back champions a year after their triumph in the desert — he may have struggled, at first glance, to recognize the guy on the wall.
The best male player in the history of tennis without a Grand Slam title is Chilean Marcelo Ríos, Greg Rusedski says. Getting to world number one cannot compare to anything else, despite the Olympic gold and another 23 ATP titles
RÍO DE JANEIRO – Under the tropical heat, with Christ the Redeemer embracing everyone from the top of Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro is further proof of the passion that tennis awakens in Latin America. Does the ATP know or understand
The drama at the top of men’s tennis used to be on the court, but now it’s mostly off the court. It’s all drama for Novak Djokovic, who is changing his team when everything should be so much smoother. He
A poster in his room. Since he was eight years old, Luca Nardi has worshipped his favorite player. Every day he spent at home, after waking up and before going to bed, the Italian would see the Serbian’s picture behind
“A specter is haunting Europe”, wrote Karl Marx and Frederick Engels at the end of the 19th century: the ghost was communism, and it would end up haunting the whole world. The “Communist Manifesto” is certainly not something that has
MELBOURNE – When Novak Djokovic arrived in Australia, he did so with a nervousness he had not experienced before. He didn’t know what the crowd’s reaction was going to be like. He had no idea what was going to happen
SYDNEY – “Djokovic not playing? I didn’t know that.” Taylor Fritz smiles when he is told that Novak Djokovic won’t be able to play Indian Wells, the tournament the top-ranked U.S. player has to defend in March. “There is my
