The term Fan Week is increasingly popular in sports. Aimed at energizing tennis and making it attractive in everyone’s eyes, this event—now indispensable at certain major tournaments—is enjoying growing success.
Long regarded as a simple appetizer before the main show, qualifying week has now established itself as an event in its own right. Between raw emotions, spectacular innovations, and record attendance, Opening Week is shaking up the codes of world tennis.
In 1973, Billie Jean King did far more than beat Bobby Riggs: she toppled a symbol. Five decades later, the “Battle of the Sexes” is reborn between Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios, but this time, the battle seems to have lost its soul.
Social networks have opened an unprecedented era for tennis: one in which notoriety is built as much on the court as on Instagram. But how far can this quest for visibility go without shaking the players’ balance?
Since the separation with Juan Carlos Ferrero, Carlos Alcaraz is moving into the unknown. And Steve Johnson believes he knows that a new mentor will arrive soon, including a well-known name on the circuit.
"I was afraid of getting a 6-0, 6-0": Steve Johnson looks back with honesty and humor on his only duel against Rafael Nadal, a memory as intimidating as it is unforgettable.
Facing Rafael Nadal, Steve Johnson had only one thing in mind: avoid humiliation. The American looks back on that 2015 match in Madrid, between fear of a double 6-0 and relief at having won... just a single game.
This is a decision that is making a lot of noise in the French tennis world: the FFT has been ordered to pay €850,000 to its former DTN, Nicolas Escudé. A case that highlights internal tensions and the federation's controversial choices.
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