PARIS – The clash that every sports fan would like to see is just a step away: Rafael Nadal versus Novak Djokovic at Roland Garros? But not at the Grand Slam tournament, but representing Spain and Serbia respectively at the
PARIS – Carlos Alcaraz radiates happiness, and it’s not because he’s the reigning Roland Garros and Wimbledon champion. It’s because he has his idol by his side in a very special way. Rafael Nadal is his doubles partner, his inspiration,
PARIS – Novak Djokovic chose privacy during Paris 2024. He will not sleep in the Olympic Village. “We expect Novak to arrive within the next few days, although he will not be staying with us in the Village,” an organizing
PARIS – Rafael Nadal is happy in Paris, and that should not be news, after all he is the owner of 14 titles at Roland Garros. But behind the smiles, the jokes and the ironies that he displayed on Tuesday
LONDON – “Winning ugly” was, at the time, an outburst of sincerity: tennis is not necessarily beauty, said Brad Gilbert, who today, from his position as a commentator on ESPN, sees Andy Murray and Daniil Medvedev as other “winning by
LONDON – Anyone can have a day of rage, but Novak Djokovic is no ordinary person. The Serb’s was on July 8, 2024 in London, when in a handful of hours he got into a fight with part of the
Roger Federer keeps a very special framed photo of himself and Rafael Nadal in a room in his house. And, when he looks back in time, the Swiss believes there was something about Novak Djokovic that facilitated his relationship with
PARIS – Carlos Alcaraz had it well in mind on his night of glory at Roland Garros: there were 40 days to go before returning to the Bois de Boulogne to pursue another dream, the Olympics, and this time hand
PARIS – No one can deny that Carlos Alcaraz is a confident young man, and he does nothing to hide it either. In that sense, the Spaniard is much more like Serbia’s Novak Djokovic than his compatriot Rafael Nadal. ‘There
PARIS – When Carlos Alcaraz won the 2022 US Open, a new era of tennis was born without the old one having died yet, but with either Alcaraz or Jannik Siner in the final of the French Open on Sunday, the
Twelve years ago, in 2012, Ion Tiriac ordered salt to be thrown on the brand new blue clay courts with which the Madrid tournament intended to surprise the world. He did so on the night before the tournament began, appealing
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
