PARIS – Serbia’s Novak Djokovic announced on Tuesday that he was withdrawing from Roland Garros due to a knee injury, ushering in a new era of tennis with the arrival of Jannik Sinner at world number one, the first Italian
Twelve years ago, in 2012, Ion Tiriac ordered salt to be thrown on the brand new blue clay courts with which the Madrid tournament intended to surprise the world. He did so on the night before the tournament began, appealing
PARIS – A placid sunny Monday in Paris was the setting for a near-earthquake in men’s tennis: Argentina’s Francisco Cerúndolo came close to beating Serbia’s Novak Djokovic and thus confirming Italy’s Jannik Sinner as the new world number one. But
PARIS – What would Carlos Alcaraz do if he had a tennis girlfriend? Would he play mixed doubles with her, as his next opponent, Stefanos Tsitsipas, does with Paula Badosa? And if he had to split a tennis doubles, football
PARIS – What if we put an end to best-of-five-set matches in tennis and men played, like women, best-of-three sets? ‘Everyone would be happy: the players because they would avoid those marathon matches, women because they could gain much more
PARIS – Like fine wines, Indian Sriram Balaji ‘s tennis career is improving as the years go by: he is in the third round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in his life, and his idea is
PARIS – In recent years in tennis you will have heard a lot of talk about ‘resilience’ and ‘mental health’. And always, always, about dollars. But surely you have rarely come across another word that is as simple as it
PARIS – Carlos Alcaraz is grinning from ear to ear after making it into the last 16 at Roland Garros and Mats Wilander asks him a question in the post-match interview. ‘Were you worried about the match with Sebastian
PARIS – It’s not hard to understand why Roger Federer prefers the warm waters of Southeast Asia to six consecutive days of cold and rain in Paris, but the truth is that, beyond being retired from tennis and enjoying the
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
PARIS – There are three culprits, in chronological order: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. Two of them are still competing, and there is one who, because of the juggernaut they created together, has trouble getting out of bed.
