LONDON – Get the needles ready. Tomorrow Czech Marketa Vondrousova will get one more tattoo for her collection, in reference to her Wimbledon title won this Saturday: the Venus Rosewater Dish (the Wimbledon ladies’ trophy) or maybe a strawberry, the
LONDON – During a Wimbledon edition with less political discussion than expected, one of the Ukrainian tennis key actors spiced up with a series of allegations: “We share locker rooms with people who want our families dead and our people
PARIS – There is one thing that separates the WTA from the ATP, one aspect in which they are very different: on the women’s tennis tour there are players who are openly lesbian. In the men’s tennis tour, no player
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
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
BUENOS AIRES – Shakira, Bizarrap and the Davis Cup. There is no little that has gone wrong for Gerard Piqué in recent months, although there is no reason to be alarmed about the former Barcelona player’s future: he has many
DOHA – Menstruation has arrived at Wimbledon, and Judy Murray thinks it’s a reason to celebrate. That tennis’s most traditional tournament is relaxing its strict rules for the benefit of women is, for an icon of girl power like Andy’s
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
DOHA – Jelena Ostapenko believes in that old concept used in marketing, which says there is no such thing as bad publicity. “If people know you, they will always talk about you. Good or bad, they will still talk. The
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
“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,”.
