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
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
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
MADRID – “I don’t see it,” was heard from Carlos Alcaraz’s box when German Jan-Lennard Struff was a rampaging tennis nightmare who had silenced the Caja Mágica. But you saw it: Madrid champion and, having passed the all-important subject of
Is there art in sport and tennis? Yes, of course there is. Is there marble in a backhand? Well, that sounds a bit strange, although when you delve into the life of Lorenzo Musetti, the great promise of Italian tennis,
BARCELONA – Stefanos Tsitsipas has found a new weapon to add victories on clay. It combines the teachings of the animal kingdom with a theological virtue, and is summed up with a Greek expression: donkey’s patience. Donkey’s? Yes, donkey’s. It’s
From the most succesful moment of his career, to a dark journey inside his head. The story of Dusan Lajovic is finally getting back to a happy zone: “I got into a loop of being mentally in a bad place.
