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
A shiver runs down the spine of tennis: Roland Garros without Rafael Nadal ? It’s perfectly possible. Absent from Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Madrid, and now Rome, he only has Paris left in the clay-court season. And there’s a serious chance
There is something about Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic that is not typical of Homo Sapiens. Magnus Norman believes it, a man who after becoming the world number two and the French Open finalist as a pro player, has studied
MELBOURNE – When Novak Djokovic arrived in Australia, he did so with a nervousness he had not experienced before. He didn’t know what the crowd’s reaction was going to be like. He had no idea what was going to happen
MELBOURNE – On the court that bears Rod Laver’s name, Novak Djokovic keeps breaking records. He continues to crush his rivals. Nullifying their game, leaving them without ideas. Throwing away any approach that aims to hurt him. He shrinks them,
MELBOURNE – Tommy Paul speaks for Stefanos Tsitsipas to take note: “Novak Djokovic made me play very badly”. As rarely heard from a tennis player after a defeat, the North American shared point by point the reasons for his failure
MELBOURNE – The city is in full swing. Offices are emptying and bars are filling up, trams are at capacity, and traffic is heavy but never stops flowing. Melbourne’s rush hour can be felt from a privileged place. In the
MELBOURNE – Understanding the Australian way of speaking is one of the most complex challenges for anyone who’s learning English. Especially the accent and slang of that typical suburban, thin, blond, mustachioed like in the seventies, long-haired character who makes
MELBOURNE – Winning a Grand Slam has been one of the toughest challenges in men’s sport for the past 20 years. Will it still be that way in 2023? Almost all top tennis players are betting on a new Grand
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
SYDNEY – Freshness, novelty and entertainment is what the United Cup is bringing. The mixed teams tennis competition, which fuses elements of its predecessors, has those who have tried it very happy. They love it. The last great memory of
RIYADH – Stefanos Tsitsipas wants a Grand Slam and the top of the ranking in 2023. Something like what Carlos Alcaraz achieved in 2022: a major title and number one. His greatest ambitions are expressed in words full of confidence.
