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Red clay is not (just) clay: how tennis changes on the Roland Garros courts

Red clay is not (just) clay: how tennis changes on the Roland Garros courts

Jannik Sinner he won the Italian Internationals by beating Casper Ruud 6-4, 6-4, exactly fifty years after the last Italian triumph in Rome signed by Adriano Panatta in 1976. Now the tennis caravan is heading towards Roland Garros, the great tournament in Paris which is the last one still missing in the showcase of the world no.1 in the ATP ...

Yes, maybe it's the best season ever for a tennis player

Yes, maybe it’s the best season ever for a tennis player

Yes, maybe it’s the best season ever for a tennis player Jannik Sinner is adding significant chapters in the history of tennis. Which in itself is already extraordinary, exciting and you too can use all the adjectives that come to mind, but it takes on the contours of a legend if all this happens after the Martian era marked by ...

Padel balls are different from tennis balls: the physical analysis of bounce and pressure

Padel balls are different from tennis balls: the physical analysis of bounce and pressure

Generated with AI Padel balls and tennis balls are practically identical at first glance: same bright yellow colour, same shape, same felt covering. Yet you only need to play a few exchanges to realize that they don’t behave the same way. Because that gives padel seems to “turn off” after the bounce, while the one from tennis remains fast and ...

Tennis boom in Italy: record revenues and membership, overtaking football for the first time

Tennis boom in Italy: record revenues and membership, overtaking football for the first time

A revolution that is no longer a utopia but has become reality: according to research by Sole24Orein 2025 the Italian tennis and padel federation recorded for the first time i highest revenues among all Federations, including football. This is unique in the history of Italian sport, dominated par excellence by football, which among its causes also has the success of ...

The evolution of the Davis Cup: history and possible lifelines of the tennis "World Cup".

The evolution of the Davis Cup: history and possible lifelines of the tennis “World Cup”.

Italy’s triumph in Malaga in 2024. Credit: via X, Davis Cup/Federtennis In an individual sport like tennis, the Davis Cup it is a romantic exception. The oldest and most important national team competition in the world of racket (twin sister of the women’s Billie Jean King Cup), which reached its 113th editionwill be staged in Bologna from 18 to 23 ...

How the tennis racket has changed: the evolution of materials from wood to graphite

How the tennis racket has changed: the evolution of materials from wood to graphite

From the wood to aluminium, passing through fiberglass and Kevlar, up to the revolution of graphite. The history of tennis is the story of a technological evolution contained in its most iconic instrument: the racket. We have gone from heavy tools made of ash or maple, with animal gut strings and a very small stringbed – the area from the ...

"The Master"the tennis film starring Pierfrancesco Favino doesn't have much to offer

"The Master"the tennis film starring Pierfrancesco Favino doesn’t have much to offer

“Il Maestro”, the film about tennis with Pierfrancesco Favino does not have much to offer Pierfrancesco Favino seems condemned to absolute protagonism, to being a showman always and in any case and “Il Maestro” by Andrea Di Stefano is clear proof of this. Tennis, life, love, fear, guilt, tears and smiles are the heart of this strange comedy presented out ...

If rap was tennis, Mamdani would be a ball boy (but it helped him)

If rap was tennis, Mamdani would be a ball boy (but it helped him)

If rap was tennis, Mamdani would be a ball boy (but it helped him) Not everyone becomes a rapper to be famous and make money. Sometimes they succeed because they seize an opportunity, perhaps the only one offered by a difficult area full of contrasts. Others don’t even know how they became successful artists: and they burn out, surrounded by ...

The biomechanics of the tennis serve, from Gauff to Sabalenka and Medvedev

The biomechanics of the tennis serve, from Gauff to Sabalenka and Medvedev

Tennis and science, a combination that in recent years has become increasingly consolidated among professionals. The last to rely on the “care” of scientific discipline and technology was No. 3 in the world Coco Gauff: to improve its performance in the service, the American has hired an expert in its team biomechanics, Gavin MacMillanthe same one who made her colleague ...

Are the surfaces becoming uniform in tennis to favor Sinner and Alcaraz? Science's answer

Are the surfaces becoming uniform in tennis to favor Sinner and Alcaraz? Science’s answer

Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner at Roland Garros. Twitter The words of the tennis legend have caused quite a bit of controversy, Roger Federerduring an interview on the podcast Served by Andy Roddick. The Swiss, who has been retired for three years now, speaking about the Sinner-Alcaraz duopoly that is dominating world tennis, offered his point of view on the ...