5 reasons to follow the Nadal-Medvedev clash in the Australian Open final

The Spaniard and the Russian have a date with history this Sunday in Melbourne (from 9:30 a.m. in France). Nadal to overtake Djokovic and Federer«I feel very lucky to have won once, said the Spaniard. I never considered having another chance in 2022.” Winner in Melbourne in 2009, Rafael Nadal therefore has a new opportunity […]

Rafael Nadal, alone against the youth

The dean of the Australian Open semi-finalists retains his stainless competitiveness. He will face Berrettini on Friday. In 2001, smoking nostrils, Rafael Nadal made his first races on the circuit. Stefanos Tsitsipas was… 3 years old, Matteo Berrettini and Daniil Medvedev, 5. Twenty years and a few months later, the Spaniard (35) will share the […]

How Decathlon seduced tennis player Gaël Monfils

DECRYPTION – The sports brand has become the official equipment supplier of the French number one. This is what is called a positive buzz for Decathlon, the French number one in the sale of sporting goods. Gaël Monfils has officially joined his tennis brand, Artengo, which has become its official equipment supplier since the beginning […]

Ksenia Efremova, 12 years old and already quite a “Tsar”

PORTRAIT – Discover a seed of Russian champion, hatched at the Mouratoglou Academy near Nice and great attraction of the Petits As, the unofficial under-14 world championship. Special envoy to Biot On this sunny December on one of the 34 courts of the Mouratoglou Academy, located in Biot, near Nice, Ksenia, 12, hits every ball […]

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 […]

Decryption: is the service and volley being reborn?

Maxime Cressy had a vision: “I’m going to bring serve and volley back to life. I believe it. » The French-American and his 283 services followed at the net in the first week of the Australian Open bring us back to the time of the 80s and 90s, when Martina Navratilova, John McEnroe, Stefan Edberg, […]