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Joan Solsona was honored with the 2024 Ron Bookman Media Excellence Award

The prestigious ATP Awards goes to long-time journalist MarCA

December 09, 2024

The media credentials add up quickly when you combine Grand Slams, ATP Masters 1000s, Nitto ATP Finals and Davis Cups over two decades worth. Now Joan Solsona, a longtime journalist with Spanish sports daily MARCA, can add a Ron Bookman Media Excellence Award to her collection.

“It is a great honor to receive this honor, and I have to thank everyone who participated in the matchmaking game that makes our job easier as journalists,” said Solsona who started working with MARCA in 2000. “I was very lucky to be around tennis at the same time as the Big Four, and I’m very excited now for the next generation.”

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

Solsona has also competed in football, basketball, handball, swimming and water polo, and was on her way to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. But it was in the world of tennis that he found his voice as a sports writer.