Novak Djokovic is going through a dangerous moment. His shots lack sting, he’s slow, and he’s struggling to finish points. It’s as if he’s playing one gear lower than the rest of today’s top players. Sinner, Alcaraz, Zverev… the younger
At first glance, only a specialist in hieroglyphics, Sanskrit, Aramaic and, why not, the Higgs Boson, would be able to understand the Rafael Nadal of these weeks, capable of deciphering the meaning of what he says. That constant “no, but
“It was a joke, next year I’ll be back, man,” says Rafael Nadal as the Caja Mágica chants his name. He confirmed later, it was his last time competing in Madrid. So, according to him, the last time playing on
As weekend entertainment for tweeters with time to spare, the alleged birthday cake affair may have been attractive, even if its substance and importance were zero: there was nothing to criticise or object to about the Madrid tournament in that
MADRID – “I don’t see it,” was heard from Carlos Alcaraz’s box when German Jan-Lennard Struff was a rampaging tennis nightmare who had silenced the Caja Mágica. But you saw it: Madrid champion and, having passed the all-important subject of
A shiver runs down the spine of tennis: Roland Garros without Rafael Nadal ? It’s perfectly possible. Absent from Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Madrid, and now Rome, he only has Paris left in the clay-court season. And there’s a serious chance
DOHA – Rafael Nadal’s withdrawal from the Las Vegas exhibition against Carlos Alcaraz in the North American desert indicates that he will not be at Indian Wells, although it has not been made official. He continues to recover from the
