BBC Sport Tennis: A Global Court Where Geopolitics Serves and Human Frailty Volleys Back By Our Man in the Press Box Who Still Owes Wimbledon a Security Deposit There is, apparently, no corner of the planet so remote that a local 12-year-old hasn’t already perfected a topspin forehand and is now being data-mined by a…
Lorenzo Musetti, the 22-year-old Italian who looks like he strolled off a Fellini set with a racquet instead of a cigarette, has become the latest reminder that global tennis is now a geopolitical chessboard played on acrylic. Last month in Monte Carlo, Musetti dispatched world No. 1 Novak Djokovic with the same languid shrug one…
Karolína Muchová: The Czech Enigma Who Makes Tennis Cosmopolitan Again By Dave’s Locker International Desk | June 2024 Prague, a city that still smells faintly of Kafka, Pilsner, and the 1989 velvet that refused to get bloody, has coughed up another absurdist protagonist for the global stage: Karolína Muchová. She is currently the only Czech…
