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
Nick Kyrgios sarcastically showed his disdain for Zizou Bergs. “Who?” the Australian commented on a post by CLAY’s Instagram account (@claymagazine_). The sequence of events is as follows: in May, Kyrgios called Bergs’ celebration at Roland Garros 2024 “lame” after
If Novak Djokovic is surprising on court, he can be even more so off court. As his Serbian colleague Olga Danilovic explained: ‘Whatever you talk about, he knows about it. Sometimes it’s like, ‘How do you know so many things?’
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,
Is it s possible that someone has turned down a proposal from Roger Federer once, but to do it twice? And as a teenager? Joao Fonseca did something perhaps unprecedented. The young Brazilian afforded himself the luxury of saying no
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
Joao Fonseca is aiming high, as high as to follow in the footsteps of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner: “I look at their rivalry and that’s where I want to go. I want to be like them, I want to
