Andy Murray and Ivan Lendl, here we go again
While they had separated at the end of the 2017 season, Andy Murray and Ivan Lendl officially become a player-coach duo again at the start of this spring 2022. The Scot announced it on Friday. It was with Lendl that Andy Murray won his three Grand Slam titles (US Open 2012, Wimbledon 2013 and 2016); […]
“It will always be crazy”, Stan Wawrinka takes a look back at his career
He arrived on time and by taxi, this February morning, wearing his tartan jacket and the half-smile of those who are not quite awake yet. Came to Paris for the preview, at the Grand Rex, of Retirement homehis first co-production in the cinema, Stan Wawrinka went to have a long breakfast at “L’Équipe” to give […]
Alizé Cornet entry drop in Lyon
Alizé Cornet, French number one and 39th player in the world, disappeared from the table of the Lyon tournament from the first day. The blue heroine of the last Australian Open – she had reached the quarter-finals there, a first for her in a Grand Slam – did not last long at the WTA tournament […]
Winner of the WTA tournament in Guadalajara, Sloane Stephens puts an end to four years of failure
Falling to 57th in the world in a WTA ranking of which she was number 3 in July 2018, American Sloane Stephens finally returned to success on Sunday by winning the WTA 250 tournament in Guadalajara, Mexico. It is the seventh trophy of his singles career but the first since Miami in March 2018. In […]
Alexander Zverev selected last minute in the Davis Cup
After Acapulco’s freakout, disqualification from the tournament and subsequent $40,000 fine, Alexander Zverev is already back. The world No. 3 was indeed selected at the last minute for the Davis Cup match which will oppose Brazil to Germany, next Friday and Saturday, at the Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro. Why is this participation doubly […]
Iga Swiatek flies over the WTA 1000 final in Doha
Mobile, determined and precise, Iga Swiatek made short work of Anett Kontaveit on Saturday in the one-sided final of the WTA 1000 tournament in Doha (6-2, 6-0 in 1h04). The Pole thus put a superb end to an almost perfect week in Qatar, during which only the Swiss Viktorija Golubic (36th WTA) managed to take […]
Kontaveit vs Swiatek to Clash in Doha Final
Kontaveit Eyes seventh WTA Title in Doha Showdown Estonian star Anett Kontaveit is on the verge of securing her seventh WTA title after a dominant performance in the doha semifinals. The world No. 7, fresh off her victory in Saint Petersburg two weeks ago, dispatched latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko (ranked 13th) wiht a decisive 6-1, 6-4 […]
Return from a WTA tournament in Paris, in May 2022
Since the last edition, in 2014, of the Open GDF Suez, which was played at the Stade Pierre-de-Coubertin, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, the capital no longer had a 100% female event to offer fans of high level tennis. From May 9 to 15, the shortfall will be filled thanks to the organization of […]
Making of L’Équipe: Rafael Nadal told by Julien Reboullet
Behind the scenes of The Team A little over three years ago, L’Équipe published a series of testimonials entitled “Making Of“, in which its reporters recounted their relationship with some of the greatest champions or clubs of the time. Julien Reboullet, senior reporter for the tennis section, gave his story of fifteen years working alongside […]
Rafael Nadal, this left-hander who mistreats left-handers
A pioneer of neurological research in the 20th century, Henri Hécaen was a Breton psychiatrist passionate about the study of left-handers. After having swept away old smoky theories which advanced that the proportion of left-handed people, among “arrears”, was higher than that present in the “normal population”, he explained, in a book published in 1984 […]