PARIS – What if we put an end to best-of-five-set matches in tennis and men played, like women, best-of-three sets? ‘Everyone would be happy: the players because they would avoid those marathon matches, women because they could gain much more
PARIS – ‘A match worthy of a final,’ said Chris Evert once Poland’s Iga Swiatek’s triumph over Japan’s Naomi Osaka was a done deal. And a match to remember, because Swiatek gave the Parisian crowd a double lesson: in tennis
PARIS – It’s Rafael Nadal’s voice, it’s him, unmistakable. And the video shows him speaking on centre court at Roland Garros, where the Spaniard has won 14 of his 14 finals. What you hear is astonishing. I own fucking Roland
Germany’s Alexander Zverev is definitely the new taboo in tennis. Simply by reading the following answers from four top players. Stefanos Tsitsipas: “I won’t talk about it. I am completely unfamiliar with the situation. I have nothing to comment. Grigor
You don’t need a PhD in meteorology to understand that it is not advisable to organize an outdoor women’s tennis tournament in the Mexican Caribbean during November. It is enough to google a couple of sentences to understand that the
DOHA – The world number one once again drove the steamroller, and did so by taking away a record held by Chris Evert for more than four decades: “Sorry, Chris”. At the WTA 500 in Doha, Iga Swiatek spent less
MELBOURNE – Aryna Sabalenka did learn some important lessons after her last Grand Slam stumble. Lessons that on Saturday night she surely used to her advantage to win the first Grand Slam of her career. In New York last September,
MELBOURNE – Nadal and Djokovic have met 59 times in their lives on every possible stage, have the same number of tennis titles (92) and are neck-and-neck for the record number of major trophies. The race that Novak Djokovic and
When you sit down with Mats Wilander to talk tennis, there’s one thing you can be sure of: whether he gets it right or wrong, his predictions and analysis will be sharp, interesting and entertaining. “He’s starving! After what happened
“Tennis needs personalities, characters like Coco Gauff that vocal enough to come up with statements. Most of the players are afraid to talk about politics”, says Barbara Schett -a big fan of Gauff- when is time to analyze the North
She is the best South American tennis player of the moment and one of the best Brazilians ever, but people’s recognition might not be fair at all: “In Brazil, if you’re not Guga (Kuerten) or Ayrton Senna, you’re not enough,”.
NEW YORK – Canada’s Leylah Fernández hides her arms through the sleeves of her t-shirt. Right after the entrance of the US Open’s media centre, in the interview area, the blast of the air conditioning feels very strong. It always
