Li Na slapped Zheng Qinwen ‘s left buttock, and the 21-year-old’s face expressed a mixture of surprise and happiness. She was meeting her lifelong referent. They hugged each other in an emotional way. The past and present of Chinese women’s
The cliché was successfully avoided. — Please don’t tell me you’re taking it one match at a time— the interviewer asked Caroline Wozniacki at Margaret Court Arena. —The dream is to win it —she replied with a nervous laugh —I’ve
The way of celebrating victory by shutting up the haters might soon reach new limits in tennis. On the inside of her left index finger, Jessica Bouzas, WTA’s most promising Spaniard, has the onomatopoeia “SHH” tattooed. She says that when
SANTIAGO, Chile – Being the second best tennis player in the Arab world brings with it a responsibility that Mayar Sherif takes it with pleasure. The Egyptian embraces that pressure both on and off the court, and doesn’t keep quiet
SANTIAGO, Chile – Few people in tennis share the court with their life partner. Nadia Podoroska and Guillermina Naya enjoy that privilege. They have been girlfriends for more than two years, and doubles partners as of November 2023. Being a
SANTIAGO, Chile – There are things that don’t happen very often in tennis. One of them is finding women’s professional tournaments in South America. This Monday, a series of four WTA 125 tournaments starts in the region: Chile, Brazil, Argentina
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
NEW YORK – It is inevitable to think of the figure of Maria Sharapova when a teenager like Russia’s Mirra Andreeva comes to the forefront of world tennis, like the s the owner of five Grand Slams did. “I would
NEW YORK – A ball hitting the neck of a ball girl, a disqualification and a story that keeps haunting Spain’s Sara Sorribes from time to time. “It’s hard to see how a person who has made a mistake doesn’t
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
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
This is what happened: during the US Open, in an interview of the two CLAY editors with Nadia Podoroska, the Argentine tennis player mentioned her girlfriend. It was a very relaxed and natural conversation. As if we were comfortable in
