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
PARIS – Federico Gómez smiles, because at Roland Garros he will play his first Grand Slam. And even more importantly: the past few months have been filled with strong support from fellow players. “Obviously, I’m not alone.” “At these big
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
MADRID – Casper Ruud was raised too well. Calm, thoughtful, friendly and humorous, the Norwegian is one of the players most deserving of moving from the ‘finalist’ category to ‘champion’ in a Grand Slam tournament. He deserves it for his
RIO DE JANEIRO – Gustavo Kuerten grabs his arm and says: “I’ve got goose bumps”. He is talking about Joao Fonseca. And Kuerten opens his eyes, smiles and says without hesitation: he would have been incapable of winning Roland Garros
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
Of the “New Four Musketeers” of French tennis, only half remain in professional activity. Richard Gasquet, known for his exquisite one-handed backhand and unmatched technique, smiles when recalling that golden era alongside Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Gilles Simon, and Gael Monfils: “Those
Twenty-three years after a doping case in which he was proven innocent, but which ruined part of his career, Argentine Guillermo Coria sees what is happening with Italian Jannik Sinner and regrets: he would have liked to have received the
For Guillermo Vilas it was an obsession. To be Roland Garros champion was more than a goal, it was an obligation of destiny and a requirement to ‘be good’. The moment that was imagined many times in his mind: ‘I
PARIS – As a teenager, Czech Tomas Machac made a drastic decision: without Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez and Neymar playing together at Barcelona, watching football no longer made sense. A few years later, at the age of just 23, he
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
