Roger Federer already knew, and, in his own way, he told it to the whole world on the morning of September 3rd in a television studio in New York: Rafael Nadal would soon announce his retirement. A retirement that the
PARIS – As a teenager, Czech Tomas Machac made a drastic decision: without Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez and Neymar playing together at Barcelona, watching football no longer made sense. A few years later, at the age of just 23, he
PARIS – Spain was too much, too much for Carlos Alcaraz. The pressure he felt today in the final for Paris 2024 Olympic gold was “different”, he said. And hence the flood of tears, the emotional outpouring after the final
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 – It’s true, it’s real. It’s real now. The tennis player Andy Murray doesn’t exist anymore. He is now officially an ex tennis player. His professional career was over before nightfall in humid Paris, in a place that knew
PARIS – There is one thing Serbian patriot Novak Djokovic has never clearly explained: why, on the day he could have won a medal for his country, he decided not to contest it and went home. Djokovic is still winning,
PARIS – At 20:48 in Paris, the final whistle blew. Spain’s Rafael Nadal said goodbye forever to the Olympic Games. And to the orange clay that made him one of the greatest and most amazing sportsmen of all time? ‘Rafa,
PARIS – The harmony between Katerina Siniakova and Tomáš Machac is easy to see on the court. They play the Olympic mixed doubles and are constantly smiling. They look at each other in a special way and they convey that
PARIS – Failing to win gold at the Tokyo Olympic Games left Novak Djokovic devastated and broken: “He was completely destroyed”. An incomparable pressure was what Djokovic could not withstand. The great reason that led to the Serb’s Olympic tragedy
PARIS – Give me time, asks Rafael Nadal. And stop asking me every day about my retirement. The 6-1, 6-4 drubbing of Serbia’s Novak Djokovic was resounding, and Nadal is under no illusions about what his second-round exit from the
PARIS – While Rafael Nadal looked at the ground as if trying to find impossible answers, the giant screen of the Philippe Chatrier stadium showed dozens of fans waiting to take a picture with his statue, a few meters away
PARIS – Is it the last season, is it the last episode? Not to be ruled out. The 60th match between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic comes in an unusual situation, a second round, and with both in very different
