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
One life can hold many lives. You can shake hands with Roger Federer on the tennis court and, years later, throw yourself into the arms of Javier Milei. Argentine Diego Hartfield knows this well. He was first a tennis player,
“I almost died.” Bosnian Damir Dzumhur fought for his life and returned to the court stronger: being so close to death in the hospital made him appreciate the game even more after his comeback. The current world No. 63 suffered
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
The greatest threat to disrupting the duopoly of Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz in the near future is an 18-year-old Brazilian. Joao Fonseca, the new kid on the block, is the most promising teenager in the men’s tennis tour. “I
You have to look down to find them. There, at waist level with most of the players, are the two youngest ‘journalists’ in tennis, Matías and Camila González, children of the successful Mexican doubles player Santiago González. ‘Matias is 11
Mariana Enriquez is not only a hugely successful novelist and one of the leading figures in horror literature over the past decade; she’s also a passionate tennis fan with sharp opinions: “Tennis fans are very authoritarian, and they get upset
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
MADRID – So many times the impossible was possible, Rafael Nadal and those around him ended up believing that things are always like that. You can win Roland Garros 14 times, you can return to world number one after injuries
He knows what it’s like to challenge Roger Federer on the big tennis stages and he reached number 73 in the world ranking, but his life today is different: he is a powerful financial broker who thinks less and less
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
BERLIN – If you walk through Berlin these days, you will see many people wearing Roger Federer caps. There are more and more as you approach the Uber Arena near Warschauer-Straße subway station. Here and there, tennis fans are also
