PARIS – As Thiago Seyboth Wild was shaking off Daniil Medvedev with serves and forehands on the Roland Garros Centre Court, one question kept coming up from spectators and reporters alike: who is this guy? Logical. The Brazilian arrived in
His nickname is not “Guga”, but he deserves to go by it. Thiago Seyboth Wild, a 23-year-old Brazilian, wowed the Roland Garros central stadium on Tuesday by knocking out one of the greats of tennis, Russia’s Daniil Medvedev. Twenty-six years
PARIS – During the covid-19 pandemic, many things were possible. One example? Being a tennis player and having a mattress as an opponent. Less than three years later, Argentine Facundo Diaz Acosta’s opponent is Jason Kubler, a 30-year-old Australian ranked
If you decided overnight to stop watching tennis at Roland Garros and get in a car, you would be at war in just over 18 hours: that’s how long it takes to drive from Paris to Lviv, the westernmost city
PARIS – Novak Djokovic knows too many things. He knows, for example, that a couple of properly calibrated sentences can have an impact on an opponent’s morale. He knows that taking advantage of the press conference before the start of
PARIS – Can we ask you to wish us happy birthday? We’ve just celebrated our first birthday, and we’re very happy. We are doing the journalism and the site that we set out to do when CLAY was just a
As a child, Roger Federer posters adorned his bedroom walls. As an adult, Swiss Dominic Stricker inevitably imagined the scenario that would bring him together on the court with his idol in his retirement from tennis. That farewell that did
Tennis has always had four unique venues: Melbourne, Paris, London and New York. That’s where the drama and glory is concentrated, and that’s where you have to be whenever you can. But this year we have to add a fifth
Rafael Nadal’s nightmare came true on Thursday: Nadal misses Roland Garros, affected by a psoas injury suffered in January from which he has not been able to recover. But the nightmare goes even further: he will not play until the
Reality is tough, reality bites. Especially when it remains hidden and then suddenly becomes evident. This is the case of Guillermo Vilas, Argentine tennis legend and one of the most successful tennis players of all time, winner of four Grand
interview with Bjorn Borg | Announcing his retirement from professional tennis at the age of 26 after winning five Wimbledon and six Roland Garros titles. A shock for rivals and fans. A relief for Bjorn Borg: “People asking me for
As weekend entertainment for tweeters with time to spare, the alleged birthday cake affair may have been attractive, even if its substance and importance were zero: there was nothing to criticise or object to about the Madrid tournament in that
