PARIS—Somewhere between the first croissant and the third existential crisis, Andy Roddick’s name still flits across café screens like a stubborn pop-up ad from 2003. It shouldn’t make sense: here we are, two decades deep into the Federer-Nadal-Djokovic infinity loop, and yet the Nebraskan with the howitzer serve is trending again—this time because a TikTok…
Patrick McEnroe and the Quiet Apocalypse of American Soft Power By Diego Serrano, Global Desk PARIS — Somewhere between the disappearance of the last American tennis prodigy and the rise of pickleball as geopolitical metaphor, Patrick McEnroe has become the most useful diplomat Washington never appointed. To the casual observer he is merely the younger,…
CARLOS ALCARAZ: THE 20-YEAR-OLD WHO MADE THE WORLD REMEMBER TENNIS STILL EXISTS By our International Desk—where the coffee’s bitter and the optimism is imported duty-free Madrid, Riyadh, Melbourne, New York—pick your time zone and you’ll still find Carlos Alcaraz’s backhand ricocheting off every screen like a geopolitical ping-pong ball. In an era when the planet’s…
