LONDON — On a bench at Wimbledon sits Goran Ivanisevic, the 2001 champion and now a seasoned coach. With Ivaniesevic, an entertaining interview is always guaranteed. He believes, for example, that many tennis players sustain themselves by taking antidepressants. “When
LONDON – Stefanos Tsitsipas and Paula Badosa have ended their romantic relationship. The Greek and the Spaniard are going through difficult times both on and off the court. The breakup occurred days before Wimbledon, CLAY confirmed with sources close to
LONDON — Devastated, Stefanos Tsitsipas expressed all his pain after another setback in his career — and he’s not ruling out stepping away from competition entirely. “If I see this is going on the same direction, there is no point
PARIS – Once again, tennis punishes Stefanos Tsitsipas with the precision of a Greek tragedy. Like the heroes of Aeschylus or Sophocles, Tsitsipas does not shy away from suffering. He promises to embrace it if necessary, to go through whatever
BARCELONA – While expecting the arrival of Goran Ivanisevic, Stefanos Tsitsipas is recovering from the emotional blow of what he called the “second worst loss” of his career after his defeat in Monte Carlo. The Croatian coach will join Tsitsipas’
MELBOURNE – The pursuit of beauty can lead to tragedy, examples of which abound in history, literature, film or music. Also tennis, where no one embodies tragic beauty better than Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas: playing beautiful no longer works, he discovered
Stefanos Tsitsipas survived the harshness of bullying thanks to tennis. His mother, former Greek-Russian tennis player Julia Salnikova, revealed in an interview on Greek television that the former world number three was subjected to physical violence at school by a
NEW YORK – Paula Badosa one day dreamt she won the Australian Open in the same year as Stefanos Tsitsipas. Like Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert, who in 1974 triumphed individually at Wimbledon when they were together; or similar to
NEW YORK – Confidence is the cornerstone of Paula Badosa ‘s game: “When you’re confident or with a positive dynamic, without wanting to, you’re winning”. A year ago, she had to withdraw from the US Open, injured in the vertebrae
Stefanos Tsitsipas grew tired of Apostolos Tstsipas’ dual role and decided to remove him from his coaching staff: “It is with a heavy heart that I inform you that my collaboration with my father as a coach has come to
PARIS – There is one thing Serbian patriot Novak Djokovic has never clearly explained: why, on the day he could have won a medal for his country, he decided not to contest it and went home. Djokovic is still winning,
LONDON – The dose of strength Paula Badosa needs at Wimbledon comes from the memory of her most frustrating days. “It gives me strength to think about the most difficult moments, like when in February I couldn’t play and I
