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
PARIS – If there is anyone who has no doubts about Rafael Nadal’s condition in these Olympic Games, it is Carlos Alcaraz: “Rafa is at his best”. This rainy Friday in Paris, both trained doubles under the retractable roof of
PARIS – When your name is Rafael Nadal and you are one of the greatest sportsmen ever seen, you attend the draw for a tournament in person, which rarely happens, and the result is the very serious possibility of a
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
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
