At Roland Garros, Jannik Sinner’s greatest rival will be the weight of history, not the opponents standing across the net. After opening up a vast gap in level over the past few months, the Italian is beginning to show the
PARIS – It is not his forehand, his backhand, his serve, or those legs that track down every single ball: what surprises Jim Courier most about Jannik Sinner is his ability to display absolutely no emotion, even under extreme pressure,
ROME – Massimo turns his head slightly towards his passenger and utters a statement with the forcefulness and poise that perhaps only an Italian can muster. ‘Football is dead in Italy; there’s no football left. Tennis is the number one
PARIS — This Friday, 22 May, was marked as a pivotal day in the ongoing dispute between tennis players and Grand Slam tournaments over prize money. Yet what had been billed as a Media Day boycott at Roland Garros fell
MADRID — Carlos Alcaraz will not be at Wimbledon. The 23-year-old announced on Tuesday that he is also withdrawing from the grass court swing due to a right wrist injury, a decision that raises serious questions about the severity of
In the universe, nothing moves faster than the speed of light. In tennis, it seemed nothing could move faster than Djokovic, who at 37 became the first player to win every important trophy in the tour. Jannik Sinner’s title run
The enormous expectations and hype surrounding Joao Fonseca add a great deal of pressure to the 19-year-old. Yet the Brazilian is handling it well. So says Belgian Alexander Blockx, who will likely face him many times on tour. “He’s getting
Jannik Sinner said he doesn’t like press conferences; his compatriot Jasmine Paolini disagrees. For the Italian Open champion, sitting down in front of the microphones and speaking openly about what goes through her mind is a valuable opportunity to discover
Jannik Sinner, the champion. A phrase that keeps repeating itself throughout 2026. And with no player able to truly challenge him, the question looms over the sport: who can stop the world No. 1? The Italian lifted the Madrid Open
Until this Sunday, the narrative of the rivalry between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz contained an asterisk: the almost total dominance of the Spaniard on clay. In the collective imagination of the circuit, clay was the ecosystem where Alcaraz’s technical
Seeing today’s players on television gives Marcos Baghdatis a strange feeling: on the one hand, he sees a very different sport from the one he played just a few years ago; on the other, his mind keeps imagining how he
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
