How to dislike Roger Federer? Andy Murray asked himself that question, many years ago. And he tried, he tried to dislike the Swiss, he tried to dislike him. And he failed. There are more stories. We have seen Toni Nadal
LONDON – The passion for tennis does not let go of Nicolás Pereira. Pro player in the nineties, TV commentator since the beginning of the 2000s, and also from 2023, member of the ATP Players’ Council. The Venezuelan is the
LONDON – The GOAT debate runs for Feliciano Lopez on two different tracks: one is that of titles and records, which on the men’s side, has in Novak Djokovic an absolute winner. The other is that of emotions. “I think
LONDON – The Wimbledon champion says he is looking forward to going back to his hometown and walking downtown. He is sure it will take him longer to get to his destination, but that’s okay, because he wants to give
LONDON – The Carlos Alcaraz era has begun. No more nerves or cramps. No more fear in moments of pressure. There is a Wimbledon title won with class against the most successful tennis player in the world: ‘It’s a dream
MANACOR (Mallorca, Spain) – Novak Djokovic is better than Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal because he won more titles than them, but the Swiss and the Spaniard are more trascendental in the history of tennis than the Serb. Who says so?
LONDON – The first time Novak Djokovic and Stan Wawrinka played a professional tennis match, the sport was very different. It was played on a different surface. On one that is now forbidden. That’s how old the Swiss rivalry with
Rafael Nadal underwent surgery for a psoas iliacus injury with the intention of getting back to his best form, playing in 2024 and saying goodbye to professional tennis. But the story may be different, believes one of his great friends
PARIS – Dedicated to those who, in his youth, turned their faces away when they found out he was Serbian. Dedicated to those who in the 1990s decided to bomb Belgrade. Dedicated to the Australian government who in January 2022
PARIS – Natsukashii. That’s what Friday’s semi-final between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz at the French Open is all about, taking on the “happy nostalgia” that tennis demands of them, a burden it makes no sense to place on the
PARIS – Some interviews should be done next to a couch: quite a paradox in the case of Chilean Nicolas Jarry, because he is living the best moment of his career. Or maybe not so much: Jarry’s great present exists
PARIS – Carlos Alcaraz was playing in the central stadium at Roland Garros when a picture of a smiling Rafael Nadal, lying in a hospital bed, reached the mobile phones of journalists in Paris. And Nadal turned 37 years old
