LONDON – The Carlos Alcaraz era has begun. No more nerves or cramps. No more fear in moments of pressure. There is a Wimbledon title won with class against the most successful tennis player in the world: ‘It’s a dream
LONDON – Horacio Zeballos gets goose bumps when he thinks about how few Argentines have ever played in a professional Wimbledon final. Gabriela Sabatini, David Nalbandian, Javier Frana, Paola Suárez and him. This Saturday, Zeballos will play his second doubles
BARCELONA – Stefanos Tsitsipas has found a new weapon to add victories on clay. It combines the teachings of the animal kingdom with a theological virtue, and is summed up with a Greek expression: donkey’s patience. Donkey’s? Yes, donkey’s. It’s
BUENOS AIRES – Shakira, Bizarrap and the Davis Cup. There is no little that has gone wrong for Gerard Piqué in recent months, although there is no reason to be alarmed about the former Barcelona player’s future: he has many
BUENOS AIRES – Juan Carlos Ferrero is Dorian Grey. Twenty years after reaching the number one tennis ranking, the Spaniard does not seem to show any signs of ageing. At 43, he is practically the same as he was at
MELBOURNE – Ten years ago, the whole tennis world was talking about Horacio Zeballos. In February 2013, in the coastal city of Viña del Mar, Rafael Nadal came back on tour after seven months of inactivity due to injuries and
SYDNEY – The United Cup, the tournament that revived mixed competitions in tennis, can be even better: at least that’s what Spaniard Rafael Nadal believes, who made a proposal to change the format after his second defeat in the event.
SYDNEY – The Tennis TV’s graphic next to Paula Badosa ‘s image was unpublished and peculiar: “Before pickle juice / Since pickle juice”. It exhibited a ten kilometers per hour increase in the speed of her forehand topspin. After suffering
Rafael Nadal’s words from eleven years ago are evidence of a change. Or perhaps a contradiction. Back then, at the age of 25, the Spaniard complained, day in, day out, that the calendar did not give him enough time to
He started making a name for himself in tennis in 2003, when she had already been retired for seven years. She has already chosen how to live that new and different life, which is life without tennis, and that life
