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 – There are three culprits, in chronological order: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. Two of them are still competing, and there is one who, because of the juggernaut they created together, has trouble getting out of bed.
PARIS – He is not lacking in confidence: he calls himself a ‘Formula 1’ car. Mariano Navone, a 23-year-old Argentine, set a record in Paris: he is the first player in the open era of tennis to make his Grand
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
PARIS – Wimbledon and Rafael Nadal will not meet this year, but they will probably do so in 2025 to say goodbye for good. Rafael Nadal does not want to risk his most prized bet this year, the Paris Olympics,
PARIS – No one knows, not even he himself, if this was the end, but Rafael Nadal set a new milestone at Roland Garros on Monday: in what was his worst tournament defeat of his life, the Spaniard thrilled and
Rafael Nadal‘s great adventure in tennis seems to have no end: the Spaniard announced on Saturday that there is a “strong possibility” that the tournament starting tomorrow will be his last Roland Garros, but did not completely close the possibility
BUENOS AIRES – If there are those who maintain a glimmer of hope in seeing Guillermo Vilas recognized as world number one, within the ATP they suggest that it is better not to hope for anything so as not to
Déjà vu in Paris. When Rafael Nadal and Alexander Zverev were paired in the first round of Roland Garros, a mixture of murmurs, laughter and expressions of surprise was heard in the audience present in the halls of the Orangerie.
Nicolas Jarry couldn’t take it anymore. He had multiple voices in his head giving him advice about his career that confused and overwhelmed him. One of them was that of former world number 14 Jaime Fillol. Until Jarry said enough:
At first glance, only a specialist in hieroglyphics, Sanskrit, Aramaic and, why not, the Higgs Boson, would be able to understand the Rafael Nadal of these weeks, capable of deciphering the meaning of what he says. That constant “no, but
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
