HAMBURG – Behind the character Nick Kyrgios plays on TV and social media, there’s a good person. That’s what Alejandro Davidovich Fokina believes. In this interview with CLAY, conducted during the ATP 500 in Hamburg, the Spaniard of Russian descent
PARIS – Three or more consecutive wins are often enough to spark jokes on the tennis tour. “If someone beats you three times in a row, they’re your daddy”, Ben Shelton joked earlier this year, relieved that Lorenzo Musetti didn’t
What Carlos Alcaraz is doing is impressive. He arrives at the clay court season full of criticism: the old Djokovic knocked him out of Australia, he lost to Draper in Indian Wells, and he disappointed in Miami with a defeat
Daniel Altmaier does not believe Jannik Sinner had bad intentions or that the Italian tried to cheat the system. However, the German understands why many players are upset following Sinner’s positive doping test: “We all deserve the same treatment. That
RIO DE JANEIRO – Alexander Zverev abandons his serious expression for a moment, flashes a German smile and blurts out three words: ‘Best of five’. His interlocutor bursts out laughing. It is Monday in Rio de Janeiro, the city is
RIO DE JANEIRO – Alexander Zverev is not satisfied with the decision of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in the “Sinner case”. “For me, it’s either you have to decide was it his fault or was it not his fault”,’ Zverev told CLAY in Rio
Jannik Sinner reaches three-month suspension agreement after positive doping test, and many of his colleagues are not happy with the news: “I no longer believe in a clean sport” That phrase came from Stan Wawrinka’s Twitter account. Feliciano López responded:
MELBOURNE – Most legends need years to achieve the successes that justify that label. Others, however, the minority, can achieve it in just 12 months. This is the case of Jannik Sinner, who with his title at the Australian Open
MELBOURNE – Jannik Sinner champion is starting to become a repetitive title: on Sunday the Italian won the Australian Open for the second consecutive year, in a final that confirmed how much the German Alexander Zverev is weighed down by
MELBOURNE – There is no hesitation from world number two and Australian Open finalist Alexander Zverev. ‘I’m ready,’ he warns. Ready for what? To win his first Grand Slam title, to be the champion the world has been demanding of
MELBOURNE – If tennis awarded points for smiles as well as winners and errors, Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic would be in serious trouble. The big contender for the number one spot would be from Argentina and his
MELBOURNE – Nicolas Jarry and Jannik Sinner’s versions of their doping cases clash in Australia. First it was the Chilean who said: ‘I would have liked the same support he had. Then came the counterattack from the world number one:
