February 2026

Tomás Martín Etcheverry: el Retu

February 26, 2026

His beginning, though, is the kind that explains a temperament. As a child he starts with a holiday toy — a palo con pelota, a ball tied to an elastic — and it doesn’t end after ten minutes: he stays there for hours, until play becomes repeated gesture, and repeated

Pegula’s Paradox: Winning Dubai While Fixing the Tour

February 22, 2026

Featured·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

Pegula is not the most theatrical player on tour. She doesn’t live off incendiary press conferences or rivalries engineered for the algorithm. When she speaks, it sounds as if she is doing the sums on an invisible spreadsheet: time zones, adjustment time, physiological recovery windows, training sessions done “halfway”, weeks

Translucent Cover Story: Melbourne Park

February 21, 2026

Featured·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

Possible worlds: March and Beyond the Infinite Australia’s place on the calendar is not carved in stone for natural reasons. It is carved for business reasons. The idea of moving the Australian Open to March is treated as heresy because it touches alliances, not because March is Beyond the Infinite,

Triste, solitario y el número uno

February 16, 2026

Featured·History·Math·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

This article aims to examine, with rigour and analytical depth, the research carried out by Argentine journalist Eduardo Puppo, given the many misunderstandings, especially among fans. That investigation, which lasted more than twelve years and is known as “Project V”, highlighted discrepancies in the available data, documentary gaps and operational

What We Got from Lartigue’s Lenglen.

February 15, 2026

Fashion·Lifestyle·Photography

Think of Suzanne Lenglen photographed by Jacques-Henri Lartigue. Those images do not need reinterpreting, they are already a story. And that alone is enough to grasp something simple: photograph a tennis player and you are already in the realm of fashion.

Sania Mirza: Power, Politics and a Nation Watching

February 7, 2026

History·THE GAME

What makes the difference is her family. Her father, Imran Mirza, though not a professional coach, becomes his daughter’s coach for thirty years, studying the game, adapting, experimenting. Her mother, Naseema, takes on the unseen work: hours queuing for discounted train tickets, constant financial sacrifices, the logistics of a project

Breaking point When Musetti levelled up, the schedule caught up

February 3, 2026

Featured·THE GAME

This is not psychology. It is physics. Your body will adapt. It needs time. In the meantime, Lorenzo, keep your head up. It is not a weakness. These are growing pains.

The banned wristband and the real match: who controls tennis data

February 2, 2026

Featured·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

The organisers do have one defensible argument: “coaching” is not an invented scarecrow. The International Tennis Federation approved WHOOP as Player Analysis Technology with a hard condition: the device has haptic feedback capability and use is only allowed if the player can demonstrate that the vibrations are disabled. If you

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