PARIS – What’s at stake for Carlos Alcaraz on Sunday? “A tennis match.” The 22-year-old Spaniard answers with ease and simplicity a question that could invite complex analysis. Because this Sunday, 8 June 2025, in Paris, Alcaraz will walk onto
PARIS – Everything indicates that there will be tennis after tennis for Rafael Nadal. That is what one of the people who knows him best, his uncle and former coach, believes. Toni Nadal sees the 14-time Roland Garros champion playing
PARIS – Leaving the defending champion off the centre court on his return to the tournament is unusual, but Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz played down the decisions made by Roland Garros: he is confident of lifting the trophy again and, in
PARIS – The idea sounds crazy, but on the same day that Rafael Nadal said goodbye to Roland Garros and tennis for good, the Spaniard himself raised the possibility of a new Rafael Nadal on the tour. “If my son
PARIS – His rivals over the past two decades would have been well advised to take note: Rafael Nadal‘s kryptonite on the orange clay of Paris was not to be found in his racket, but in his heart. Dressed in
HAMBURG – Behind the character Nick Kyrgios plays on TV and social media, there’s a good person. That’s what Alejandro Davidovich Fokina believes. In this interview with CLAY, conducted during the ATP 500 in Hamburg, the Spaniard of Russian descent
Daniel Altmaier does not believe Jannik Sinner had bad intentions or that the Italian tried to cheat the system. However, the German understands why many players are upset following Sinner’s positive doping test: “We all deserve the same treatment. That
PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic – Rafael Nadal had a significant advantage over Roger Federer in their head-to-head record, but there was a period when the Swiss dominated him: “He was playing the best tennis of his life; I felt like
Rafael Nadal’s record at the French Open simply beggars belief. Since debuting at the tournament as a teenager back in 2005, the sensational Spaniard won 112 of 116 matches played on the famed clay courts. In fact, at the start
MELBOURNE – A few months ago, Matthew McCounaghey gave Nick Kyrgios some advice: what if you fell in love with tennis, what if you made a conscious decision to fall in love with tennis? But the Australian went another way:
Few stories in tennis in recent decades are as heartbreaking as that of Argentina’s Juan Martin Del Potro: he was destined for number one, for a great career, and today he just wants to play two hours without feeling pain
MÁLAGA (Spain) – What now, Rafael Nadal? The coincidence is general, even in the ‘Nadal clan’: the farewell to tennis was a failed event, from the place, day and time to the format, through a video that seemed edited in 1984.
