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 – Get the needles ready. Tomorrow Czech Marketa Vondrousova will get one more tattoo for her collection, in reference to her Wimbledon title won this Saturday: the Venus Rosewater Dish (the Wimbledon ladies’ trophy) or maybe a strawberry, the
LONDON – “All the attraction, the tension, don’t you see (baby), this is perfection?”. Shakira sang it in 2006. Carlos Alcaraz could have danced with those lyrics, perhaps, when he was two years old. The phrase from “Hips Don’t Lie”,
LONDON – Horacio Zeballos gets goose bumps when he thinks about how few Argentines have ever played in a professional Wimbledon final. Gabriela Sabatini, David Nalbandian, Javier Frana, Paola Suárez and him. This Saturday, Zeballos will play his second doubles
LONDON – Who wants a Wimbledon final between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz? The fans, the press, and surely, even if they can’t say it, the tournament itself. Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz Not many professional players dare to talk
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
LONDON – Long lines wait for the most desired snack when you think of tennis and London. The madness is for fruits. The Wimbledon experience is not complete without tasting its famous strawberries, one of the icons of the most
MANACOR (Mallorca, Spain) – Novak Djokovic is better than Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal because he won more titles than them, but the Swiss and the Spaniard are more trascendental in the history of tennis than the Serb. Who says so?
LONDON – The handshake at the net. That gesture that is taught from a young age in tennis schools as a sign of respect for the opponent that cannot be negotiated, whether the match has gone one way or the
LONDON – During a Wimbledon edition with less political discussion than expected, one of the Ukrainian tennis key actors spiced up with a series of allegations: “We share locker rooms with people who want our families dead and our people
LONDON – When security at the All England Lawn Tennis Club opened the doors to Centre Court for Nicolas Jarry and Carlos Alcaraz, the Chilean walked out to the right as he waved to the crowd. No one is born
LONDON – Nicolas Jarry ‘s aggressive game will meet again with Carlos Alcaraz, with the Chilean’s desire to “stain the path” that the 20-year-old Spaniard has been succesfully taking so far. “He is number one, he comes from winning Queens.
