About Sebastián Varela

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Sebastián Varela

Tennis Reporter
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About

Sebastián Varela Nahmías is a journalist specializing in tennis and Olympic sports. He began covering small events as a student, and after 13 years of experience, he is now a regular presence at all four Grand Slam tournaments — the Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the US Open — as well as the Olympic Games, having reported from Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024.

Varela Nahmías has also covered the British Open in golf, Formula 1, MotoGP, the World Cup of Golf in Melbourne and the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago.

He is the co-founder of CLAY, a bilingual tennis media outlet in English and Spanish focused on in-depth interviews, analysis, opinion columns and feature stories.

He has conducted one-on-one interviews with top tennis players such as Andre Agassi, Taylor Fritz, Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev, João Fonseca and Mirra Andreeva, as well as golf professionals Ernie Els and Joaquín Niemann.

Varela Nahmías has written for La Tercera, Racquet, Il Tennis Italiano, Relevo, Infobae, El Mercurio and Cooperativa. He was also a tennis commentator for Zapping.

In addition, he has worked as a travel writer for Revista Domingo, a contributor to Chef & Hotel, and formerly as editor of the cocktail and gastronomy magazine Jigger.

Based in: Santiago, Chile

Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese

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