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“The winner takes it all”

Featured·History·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

Tennis, the NFL and the union of the top ten: why 17.5 per cent is an alibi Sinner in 2024 is on about 24 million in total. World No. 100 (Coria) is on roughly 600,000 dollars. World No. 250 (Shelbayh) just over 200,000. Translated: Sinner ≈ 40 times No. 100. Sinner ≈ more than 100 times No. 250.

Featured·Math·TENNIS IQ·THE GAME

Hawk-Eye in Tennis: Is it Just the Poetry That’s Fading?

The 'probabilistic weight' carrying more conviction about the reality of the event (ball out) than the electronic system’s indication alone: that’s why the umpire should be authorized to come down.

2026 Won’t Wait: The Under-18 Elite Are Already Feeling the Pro Cost

The shortcut that is not a shortcut: when a teenager becomes an

The Catcher on the Line

In November 2023, Jannik Sinner lost at the Finals in Turin. Yet,

I Want Federer’s Racket

August 25, 2026

Featured·TENNIS IQ·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

Twenty-four rackets for a millimetre and a half might seem like madness, but we are talking about Nadal’s ball, which Djokovic could not play quite the way he wanted. So we are somewhere between myth and obsession. You decide which is which, and what is what.

Sinner’s Year of the Dragon Is Ferrara’s Best Defence

August 11, 2026

Featured·THE GAME

Ferrara joined the team in June 2022. Sinner was world No. 13 and had just come through the most physically difficult spring of his career: he withdrew from Indian Wells through illness, retired in Miami because of blisters, suffered a knee problem at Roland Garros and pulled out of Halle.

Vondroušová: how an argument turned into a four-year anti-doping ban

August 1, 2026

THE GAME·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

The written reasons show that she knowingly refused the test because she believed she was being subjected to an abuse of authority. They also reveal that the officer did not show her credentials and used an outdated form.

Canadian Open: The Fateful Wrath of Valérie Tétreault

July 29, 2026

THE GAME·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

“Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns…” So begins Homer’s Odyssey in Robert Fagles’s translation. This time, however, it is Valérie Tétreault, director of the Montreal Masters 1000, who is asking for answers. Following the withdrawals of Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic—two “men of

Vondroušová’s four-year suspension: a sanction that can be explained, but not yet fully assessed

June 24, 2026

THE GAME·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

The ITIA has on its side a very harsh and fairly clear rule: the athlete can be tested outside the window, and refusal constitutes a serious violation. Vondroušová has on her side a human and potentially procedural argument: an evening test at home, personal safety, contested identification and certified psychological

Sinner: The Body We Don’t See

June 1, 2026

THE GAME·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

The point is not to make a diagnosis from the outside. That would be wrong and pointless. The point is to understand why these episodes are so striking in Sinner’s case. Not because he is a weak athlete. Quite the opposite: because Sinner became world number one by building his

The low-cost revolt

May 22, 2026

Featured·History·THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME

Rafael Nadal’s old “if, if, if… doesn’t exist” line has become part of tennis folklore. These days, however, the “if” is everywhere. If the Slams paid 22%. If revenues were calculated transparently. If the new money really reached the less wealthy players. If the top players were ready for a

Corleone Guest-Arrival Chic Comes to Indian Wells

March 8, 2026

Fashion

At moments, some of those Indian Wells “Athlete Arrivals” looked less like fashion than like the arrival of the wedding guests in The Godfather. Which, in its own way, gets to the heart of the problem. The whole thing felt less like a fashion language than a highly managed piece