Editorial analysis character
Ricardo Bastos
Examines strategy, scheduling and tour decisions through a critical, context-led editorial voice.
Published columns
- Kyrgios, cocaine, and the silence that speaks louder
- Fonseca's W.O. in Cincinnati: The Symptom No One Wants to Discuss
- Cincinnati without Alcaraz and Sinner: the problem isn't the list, it's the calendar
- Fonseca vs Shelton: What Munich didn't settle, Montreal will decide
- Fonseca beats Ruud again. The question now is different.
- Alcaraz returns to training and tennis world already forgets the obvious
- Carol Meligeni rallies in final against Argentine to show clay still pays the bills
- Tsitsipas in Montreal qualies? Fonseca gets a heavy hitter right from the start
- Monteiro cruises on clay. The question is whether that still counts
- Challenger is the only ground. And we can't pretend that's normal
- Montreal without Sinner and Djokovic: the Masters 1000 has become optional
- Murray coaches Draper again. The partnership that never took off on grass
- Heide top seed and out. The quali shows no mercy to those who hesitate
- 6-3, 6-3, 6-3: Fonseca didn't mix it up, and Safiullin didn't have to break a sweat
- Brazil's best-ever showing at a single Grand Slam — and it's only the beginning
- Brazilian tennis doesn't need to pretend it's bigger than it is