The strangest Roland Garros

Roland Garros opens this Sunday (11:00, Eurosport) a strange 2020 edition, marked by the coronavirus pandemic and in conditions that have little to do with those that characterized the tournament in its previous 118 celebrations. In autumn, with a cold climate in which rain will predominate, very little public and new balls, the Wilson that … Read more

Verdasco, low due to coronavirus: “They have taken away my right to participate in Roland Garros”

The Spanish Fernando Verdasco has communicated this Friday, much to his “regret and feeling total frustration”, that you will not be able to play the Roland Garros tournament, that starts on Sunday, by have given positive in a COVID-19 test upon arrival in Paris Y after having overcome the disease asymptomatically in August. “This year … Read more

Bautista falls to Rublev in Hamburg quarter-finals

Roberto Bautista could not overcome the quarterfinals of the Hamburg tournament (Germany) when defeated before the Russian Andrey Rublev 6-2 and 7-5 in an hour and a half of the game. A bad staging of Bautista, with loss of service in the first game, determined the development of the first set, in which the Castellón … Read more

London to host the Laver Cup in 2022

The Laver Cup already has the venue to host its fifth edition in 2022. The organization of the tournament, which this year has had to postpone its fourth edition to 2021, has already confirmed which city will succeed Boston at the time of holding the tournament. In this way, the O2 Arena in London will … Read more

Roland Garros reduces capacity again: 1,000 spectators a day

Hard setback for Roland Garros. French Prime Minister Jean Castex confirmed on Thursday that the tournament will only be able to receive 1,000 fans each day. This news comes a week after the announcement of the tournament in which only 5,000 people a day would enter. The initial plan was to host 11,500 fans per … Read more

Ferrer returns to Roland Garros

David Ferrer is back at Roland Garros. The one from Jávea returns to Paris but this time he will do it from the other side of the track as coach of recent US Open finalist Alexander Zverev. Ferrer, a finalist at Roland Garros in 2013, appeared alongside Zverev this Wednesday on center court Philippe Chatrier, … Read more

Muguruza: “I want to stretch good tennis as much as I can”

Garbiñe Muguruza is already on the countdown to start his eighth Roland Garros. On a day in which the rain is being the protagonist, changing the training schedules, the Spanish tennis player attended the media in the virtual media day and was eager and expressed that he does not believe that the weather will affect … Read more

Bautista returns to Hamburg before going to Roland Garros

The Spanish Roberto Bautista, ten in the world this week, is reunited with clay this Tuesday at the Hamburg tournament, prior to Roland Garros, with the intention of “having a good week”. “We arrived in Hamburg with the desire to have a good week, they have been very exciting days personally and I am in … Read more

Nadal: “The balls are a stone, dangerous for health”

Rafa Nadal appeared at his first virtual press conference at Roland Garros, where he will make his debut on Monday against the Belarusian Gerasimov, somewhat saddened by the conditions in which it seems that the tournament is going to be played this year, which went from spring to autumn due to the coronavirus pandemic. Cold, … Read more