In the more than 30 years that I have been a journalist, I have never followed a story with such closeness, persistence and intensity as that of Rafael Nadal. On the day of his retirement, the introduction to my latest
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
Zizou Bergs is honest: he admits that being a tennis player’s partner is not easy at all Because of the constant travel, the uncertainty, the financial instability when you are not yet full-time on the main tour and, above all,
Something good is happening to tennis – is it Netflix, was it the pandemic, is it the combination of both? ‘I don’t know,’ Luiz Carvalho, a man of long experience in tennis, tells CLAY. ‘But the truth is that all the
BERLIN – If you walk through Berlin these days, you will see many people wearing Roger Federer caps. There are more and more as you approach the Uber Arena near Warschauer-Straße subway station. Here and there, tennis fans are also
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 – Jannik Sinner feels the reaction from his colleagues after his Clostebol doping case came to light was ‘quite positive’. He said this with the US Open trophy glinting at his side, when asked what he thinks this
NEW YORK – In the club of three-time winners. Aryna Sabalenka shook off her American sorrows, won the US Open and added the third Grand Slam of her career at the age of 26. She also beat the ‘challenges’ that
NEW YORK – They were days of emotional contrasts for Beatriz Haddad Maia in New York: sporting success and grief over a loss. The Brazilian achieved one of the best results of her career at the US Open 2024 by
If you want to keep a secret, it’s best not to share it with Roger Federer. In a time coincidence as extraordinary as involuntary, Rafael Nadal insisted that he is not a retired tennis player so that, just hours later,
