PARIS – It is nearly a thousand days without lifting a Grand Slam trophy. It is a single match played—and lost—on the clay-court swing leading up to Roland Garros. It is a shoulder injury that has dragged on for months.
PARIS – When everything was hanging by a thread for Carlos Alcaraz in the Roland Garros final, the player himself sent a message to his team. He was still there. The comeback was on. A confident look and a firm
PARIS – Carlos Alcaraz won his second Roland Garros title in cinematic fashion: he came back from two sets down and saved three consecutive championship points against his great rival Jannik Sinner. It was one of the best matches of
PARIS – Horacio Zeballos experienced one of the happiest moments of his life lying on the clay of Court Philippe Chatrier, rolling on the ground and bursting with emotion as a champion of the Roland Garros men’s doubles title. Together
PARIS – Once again, tennis punishes Stefanos Tsitsipas with the precision of a Greek tragedy. Like the heroes of Aeschylus or Sophocles, Tsitsipas does not shy away from suffering. He promises to embrace it if necessary, to go through whatever
PARIS – Federico Gómez smiles, because at Roland Garros he will play his first Grand Slam. And even more importantly: the past few months have been filled with strong support from fellow players. “Obviously, I’m not alone.” “At these big
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
PARIS – A placid sunny Monday in Paris was the setting for a near-earthquake in men’s tennis: Argentina’s Francisco Cerúndolo came close to beating Serbia’s Novak Djokovic and thus confirming Italy’s Jannik Sinner as the new world number one. But
Now don’t be surprised that the Frenchman is thirsty for revenge, if he had to deal with the worst fans this year in the entire ATP Tour. Corentin Moutet got the best of his tennis and his personality when he
Déjà vu in Paris. When Rafael Nadal and Alexander Zverev were paired in the first round of Roland Garros, a mixture of murmurs, laughter and expressions of surprise was heard in the audience present in the halls of the Orangerie.
LONDON – “All the attraction, the tension, don’t you see (baby), this is perfection?”. Shakira sang it in 2006. Carlos Alcaraz could have danced with those lyrics, perhaps, when he was two years old. The phrase from “Hips Don’t Lie”,
MELBOURNE – Tommy Paul speaks for Stefanos Tsitsipas to take note: “Novak Djokovic made me play very badly”. As rarely heard from a tennis player after a defeat, the North American shared point by point the reasons for his failure
