It was one of the most dramatic images of Rafael Nadal’s late career. On Wimbledon’s Centre Court, Sebastian Nadal was gesturing to his son to get out of there. The face of his sister, Maribel, showed deep anguish. ‘Rafa, please,’
In the more than 30 years that I have been a journalist, I have never followed a story with such closeness, persistence and intensity as that of Rafael Nadal. On the day of his retirement, the introduction to my latest
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
Zizou Bergs is honest: he admits that being a tennis player’s partner is not easy at all Because of the constant travel, the uncertainty, the financial instability when you are not yet full-time on the main tour and, above all,
If you want to keep a secret, it’s best not to share it with Roger Federer. In a time coincidence as extraordinary as involuntary, Rafael Nadal insisted that he is not a retired tennis player so that, just hours later,
What is it really about: that men’s tennis has learned nothing since the shameful case of Andre Agassi, or that it really had nothing to learn, because it was anything but an accident? The problem then would not be Jannik
What happened in January 2022 with Novak Djokovic in Australia was the most ‘complicated’ experience of his life. Rafael Nadal may well still be playing in 2025. And the current Davis Cup situation ‘hurts’, because the story should not have
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 – 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
PARIS – At the request of tennis fans and any lover of the sport: Nadal versus Djokovic, 60th edition. At the request even of the Serbian tennis player himself, who gave the media a message to the the Spaniard after
