If most of our lives are contests with what is within us as much as with what is without us, then each of us is two when we watch tennis—the person who dreams inside the person who acts. The person, that is, who dreams of hitting a ball the way a Nadal or Wawrrinka does, say, inside the person whose
The BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament brought a familiar GPS reading. For Rafael Nadal, Spain’s legendary lefty, the Road to Roger was mapped through another Spanish southpaw. In Monopoly, you have to pass go. In big-time pro tennis, Nadal has had to, in key moments, pass Fernando Verdasco. The journey and its history played out Tuesday, in 95-degree sunshine, on
An injury kept Roger Federer out of last year’s BNP Paribas Open, but not in 2017. The world’s former No. 1 men’s player will have his shot at both the No. 1 and 2-ranked players, Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic, respectively, when the BNP runs March 6-19 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Federer is among seven former BNP Paribas