It’s very simple: it’s about money, more money. If possible, a lot more money. Tennis is convinced that it needs more millions in its coffers and more financial muscle to survive in the increasingly competitive global sports scene. Its rabbit
MADRID – In 2007, the four major tennis tournaments greeted with wonder and trepidation an audacious idea from Ion Tiriac: to create a fifth Grand Slam tournament based in Madrid. “One must have the possibility to compete. In prizes, in
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 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
Ion Tiriac invites to sit in the entrance to the presidential box at the Philippe Chatrier Stadium at Roland Garros. The journalist shouldn’t be there, but with a slight gesture from the Romanian, the waters open up. He is in
