MADRID – One of the most surprising statistics of Roger Federer’s career is that he never abandoned a match due to injury. The Swiss took to the court 1,526 times and never had to approach the net to shake his
Stefanos Tsitsipas‘ choice is simple. He can be the Phoenix. Or he can become Sisyphus. If the gods of Olympus forced us to read only one tennis website out of all those available, reading CLAY would be a good choice
LONDON – Stefanos Tsitsipas and Paula Badosa have ended their romantic relationship. The Greek and the Spaniard are going through difficult times both on and off the court. The breakup occurred days before Wimbledon, CLAY confirmed with sources close to
MELBOURNE – Paula Badosa ‘s life took a 180-degree turn: from excruciating pain in her back and the thought of retirement, to breaking through to the semifinals of a Grand Slam for the first time. It happened on Tuesday in
NEW YORK – The phrase of tennis legend Rod Laver explains what Paula Badosa experienced at midday on Tuesday at the US Open. “The time your game is most vulnerable is when you’re ahead.’ The statistic is telling in a
NEW YORK – Paula Badosa one day dreamt she won the Australian Open in the same year as Stefanos Tsitsipas. Like Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert, who in 1974 triumphed individually at Wimbledon when they were together; or similar to
NEW YORK – Confidence is the cornerstone of Paula Badosa ‘s game: “When you’re confident or with a positive dynamic, without wanting to, you’re winning”. A year ago, she had to withdraw from the US Open, injured in the vertebrae
LONDON – The dose of strength Paula Badosa needs at Wimbledon comes from the memory of her most frustrating days. “It gives me strength to think about the most difficult moments, like when in February I couldn’t play and I
PARIS – What would Carlos Alcaraz do if he had a tennis girlfriend? Would he play mixed doubles with her, as his next opponent, Stefanos Tsitsipas, does with Paula Badosa? And if he had to split a tennis doubles, football
PARIS – It’s not hard to understand why Roger Federer prefers the warm waters of Southeast Asia to six consecutive days of cold and rain in Paris, but the truth is that, beyond being retired from tennis and enjoying the
The way of celebrating victory by shutting up the haters might soon reach new limits in tennis. On the inside of her left index finger, Jessica Bouzas, WTA’s most promising Spaniard, has the onomatopoeia “SHH” tattooed. She says that when
NEW YORK – In this interview with Conchita Martinez has a categorical rejection of the option of the women’s tour landing in Saudi Arabia: “Why would we go to Saudi Arabia with the way they see us women there?” The
