A year ago, a lifetime ago. Brothers of Italy, everyone and regardless: glory-day. Let’s rewind the film: on July 11, 2021 Italy of sport experienced one of its most incredible days, it seemed like a new beginning, after the lockdown and after the pandemic had changed the world. The summer of our hopes. Nevertheless. Everything […]
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And in the end Kate Middleton awarded a “Russian” tennis player at Wimbledon
Fate often wins with irony. She did it to Wimbledon, the tournament that this year excluded, the only one to do so, Russian and Belarusian tennis players, due to the position of the British government in support of Ukraine (today’s resigned Boris Johnson had insisted on this choice), but above all to prevent a member […]
Rafa Nadal retires from Wimbledon due to injury: what is the limit for sportsmen?
Everyone already knew. The last to admit it was him. This already tells a lot about Rafa Nadal and his philosophy of life. The Spanish champion will not play the semifinal a Wimbledon versus Nick Kyrgios. She announced it at a press conference called on Thursday evening. Not an announced press conference, but certainly expected. […]
Jabeur-Maria, the challenge at Wimbledon that talks about women’s rights
There is not only Nadal, who also works the miracle of reaching the semifinals despite an abdominal problem. There is not only Djokovic who beats Sinner in a comeback. There is also the women’s draw with a semi-final, Jabeur-Maria, which is played today at 2.30pm, which is not just any game. It is a game […]
Patrick Mouratoglou, the man who creates champions
This article is published in issue 28/29 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until July 19, 2022 His face is marked by an American actor, one of those accustomed to playing characters who have lived a life of excess and found redemption only at the end. The unkempt beard, the lean physique and two turquoise eyes […]
Kate Middleton, the true queen of Wimbledon: but could she lose her mind?
It is no mystery that Kate Middleton, future queen consort, goes crazy about tennis: when she arrives at the Royal Box at Wimbledon, the photographers turn their backs on the champions and begin to take advantage of the delightful opportunity to have her there, in full sun, without a discreet courtier, a helicopter, the increasingly […]
Wimbledon, Sinner in the quarterfinals beating Alcaraz: the match of the future
We expected Berrettiniwe found Sinner. The farewell to Wimbledon of last year’s finalist due to Covid had made Italy lose hope. She has rekindled her clearest talent in blue tennis in a match that is a foretaste of the future of tennis. It so happened that the eighth final between Sinner and Alcaraz played on […]
Wimbledon: no longer total white, but only for Ukraine
TO Wimbledon it has been a tradition since the Victorian era and a rule to go and play dressed in white. Not that the rule is as strict as it once was, you can see the names of sponsors and lines of other colors have appeared over the years, when they were too obvious, however, […]
Matteo Berrettini positive at Covid retires from Wimbledon: “I’m heartbroken”
For Matteo Berrettini it is the season of contradictions and curses: when he plays he always wins, but loses key moments for health reasons. Stopped for almost three months for the operation in hand, skipping Roland Garros, now, after winning two consecutive tournaments on his return, both on grass, he is forced to say goodbye […]
Matteo Berrettini, king of Queen’s: champion on the grass for the second consecutive year
Since his return after the operation on his hand, for which he was detained for three months, Matteo Berrettini slipped his ninth consecutive win which brought him his second trophy of the Queen’sthe Queen’s club, the antechamber of Wimbledon. “There are really too many emotions. The last thing I expected was to win two tournaments […]