Joan Solsona honoured with 2024 Ron Bookman Media Excellence Award

The media credentials pile up in a hurry when you’ve covered more than two decades’ worth of Grand Slams, ATP Masters 1000s, Nitto ATP Finals and Davis Cup ties. Now Joan Solsona, a longtime journalist with Spain’s daily sports tabloid MARCA, can add the Ron Bookman Media Excellence Award to his collection.

“It’s a big honour to receive this recognition, and I have to say thanks to everyone involved in tennis that makes our work easier as journalists,” said Solsona, who began his tenure with MARCA in 2000. “I’ve been very lucky to be around tennis at the same time as the Big Four, and I’m very excited now for the new generation coming.”

“This year, I had the opportunity to interview Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz and Holger Rune,” he continued. “They represent the present and future of tennis.”

Solsona has also covered football, basketball, handball, swimming and water polo, and was on assignment for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. But it’s in the tennis world that he truly found his voice as a sportswriter.

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