Rafael Nadal Archives: 04/2018

Nothing to lose and everything to gain: that was how the beaming Greek teenager, Stefanos Tsitsipas, who faced the biggest test that tennis has to…

It has been all about Rafael Nadal, as the giant of clay-court tennis returned to the court that now bears his name at the historic…

It was another extraordinary achievement in a tennis career already packed to the gunnels with extraordinary achievements. When Rafael Nadal capped his 2017 clay season…

A hot Friday, and the schedule started bright and early in Monte-Carlo with what promised to be one of the quarter-finals of the day between…

It was one of those days where almost every singles match deserved to revel in the sunshine of Court Rainier III as the last 16…

It is one of the oldest and most glamorous tennis venues in the calendar—more than 100 years and counting. And the self-styled “Gem of the…

The first quarter of 2018 is done and dusted, a quarter during which tennis has been dominated by the punishing hard courts and temperatures of…

The headlines, before and during the Davis Cup quarter-finals this weekend, were all about world No1 Rafael Nadal, and the spotlight was firmly focused on…

This may end up being the last Davis Cup played in this familiar format, at this time of the year, and with that unique home…

It is not mentioned in the previews to this week’s Davis Cup quarter-finals by its website editors, but in the month or so since the…