LONDON – If Taylor Fritz is consistent, he should be genuinely pleased after reading what Arthur Rinderknech told L’Equipe, just before the two tennis players face each other for a place in the third round of Wimbledon. “My friend Taylor!
LONDON – As tradition dictates at The Queen’s Club, Tommy Paul received from the hands of the director a card accrediting him as an honorary member for life of one of the most expensive and exclusive clubs in London: “It
PARIS – The eternal battle between ‘wild’ tennis and ‘good manners’ tennis had a new chapter this week in Paris. The winner, after a few days of turbulence and doubt, seems to be clear: Good manners 1, Wild 0. No
PARIS – ‘A match worthy of a final,’ said Chris Evert once Poland’s Iga Swiatek’s triumph over Japan’s Naomi Osaka was a done deal. And a match to remember, because Swiatek gave the Parisian crowd a double lesson: in tennis
When news began to circulate in 2021 that tennis would be portrayed in depth on Netflix, many rubbed their hands together. The precedent of “Drive to Survive”, an engaging immersion into the world of Formula 1, allowed for excitement. In
PARIS – There is one thing that separates the WTA from the ATP, one aspect in which they are very different: on the women’s tennis tour there are players who are openly lesbian. In the men’s tennis tour, no player
PARIS – In the middle of the night in Paris, an American tennis player gives the French crowd the silent signal and is dismissed with a thunderous boo. In the middle of the day, a journalist tells a Russian tennis
MELBOURNE – The scene is heartbreaking, not just for Nadal fans, but for any tennis follower. Rafael Nadal leaves Australia, injured, walking to the locker room through the hall of champions of the Rod Laver Arena as he has rarely
When you sit down with Mats Wilander to talk tennis, there’s one thing you can be sure of: whether he gets it right or wrong, his predictions and analysis will be sharp, interesting and entertaining. “He’s starving! After what happened
SYDNEY – The North Americans keep laughing and cracking jokes at the press conference, with the cup glittering in the middle. “The champs are here,” Frances Tiafoe repeats over and over. Jessica Pegula can’t concentrate in front of the reporters
SYDNEY – “Djokovic not playing? I didn’t know that.” Taylor Fritz smiles when he is told that Novak Djokovic won’t be able to play Indian Wells, the tournament the top-ranked U.S. player has to defend in March. “There is my
When Taylor Fritz was a teenager, he only saw four or five players capable of winning a Grand Slam. Today, the North-American sees the picture differently: “Big titles are more winnable than they used to be.” In an in-depth interview
