Developing news in the Peng Shuai story and the Australian Open announcing mandatory vaccination….. What’s this mean for top ranked unvaccinated players ?

Christopher Clarey has covered global sports for The New York Times for more than 25 years from bases in France, Spain and the United States. He is one of the world’s leading authorities on tennis and has reported from more than 90 Grand Slam tournaments, chronicling the major figures and issues of the Open era and interviewing everyone from Bjorn Borg to Serena Williams. His other areas of expertise include the Olympics, soccer and sailing. He has covered seven Summer Olympics, seven Winter Olympics, six World Cups, five America’s Cups and nine world track and field championships.  But he also has reported on nearly every major international sport, including 10 Ryder Cups and the Super Bowl, and has written about everything from bullfighting to sepak takraw to the Inuit sport known as the knuckle hop. 

His book “The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer” was published in 2021.