NEW YORK – Sebastián Yatra walks smiling through the bowels of Arthur Ashe Stadium. No wonder, his friend has just won and he has just had an unexpected night off in Manhattan. Carlos Alcaraz, who made his US Open debut
NEW YORK – It is inevitable to think of the figure of Maria Sharapova when a teenager like Russia’s Mirra Andreeva comes to the forefront of world tennis, like the s the owner of five Grand Slams did. “I would
NEW YORK – A ball hitting the neck of a ball girl, a disqualification and a story that keeps haunting Spain’s Sara Sorribes from time to time. “It’s hard to see how a person who has made a mistake doesn’t
NEW YORK – One day, Alexander Davidovich Fokina achieved what any tennis player striving to reach the top dreams of: to be the talk of the world. But it wasn’t a dream. It was a nightmare. It was his decision
NEW YORK – The US Open started with a controversy start thanks to a phrase loaded with contempt and offense toward the 2020 champion. “I’m fucking sick of giving their fucking careers back to disabled people,” said Alexander Bublik during
NEW YORK – Seeing a psychologist has helped Peru’s number one to understand that his mind, physique and tennis are fit for the top level of competition, after being relegated to the secondary circuit for five or six years without
NEW YORK – Life is faster today than it was 20 years ago, but Carlos Alcaraz’s 20’s are also faster than Rafael Nadal’s. The world number one is embracing his fame and his growing status as a “fashion icon” in
Guillermo Salatino’s Op-Ed | Gabriela Sabatini spoke, a few days ago, about the differences between tennis nowadays and during the eighties and nineties, when she was a pro. “Today the tennis dominance (in women tennis) is more changeable. Before there
LONDON – The Carlos Alcaraz era has begun. No more nerves or cramps. No more fear in moments of pressure. There is a Wimbledon title won with class against the most successful tennis player in the world: ‘It’s a dream
LONDON – Christopher Eubanks spoke a while back about a big desire. “To be able to tell people that don’t know tennis:'(I played) a quarters of Wimbledon’. That’s a different level of respect,” he told Frances Tiafoe and Ben Shelton
PARIS – Dedicated to those who, in his youth, turned their faces away when they found out he was Serbian. Dedicated to those who in the 1990s decided to bomb Belgrade. Dedicated to the Australian government who in January 2022
Twenty titles in twenty cities. Daniil Medvedev added his twentieth professional trophy at the Rome Masters 1000. And it won’t be the most important one, but it will be an immensely significant one for the Russian’s career for winning on
