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
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
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
When Ash Barty announced her retirement in March, few people were more shocked than Iga Swiatek. The Australian had just won her home Grand Slam, the first woman to do so since 1978, and was riding high at the top
Steffi Graf’s life is extraordinary in more ways than one. In tennis, there are plenty of arguments for many to rightly claim that she is the greatest player of all time. At the tender age of 19, she won the
PARIS – “I have to retire, I have already told Juan Carlos. But he won’t listen to me”. The one who wants to retire (although he is not serious) is Antonio Martínez Cascales. And Juan Carlos is Ferrero, the player
