In his 2006 ICM invited address, Konyagin mentioned the following conjecture: if S n f stands for the n-th partial Fourier sum of f and {n j } j ⊂ N is a lacunary sequence, then S n j f is a.e. pointwise convergent for any f ∈ L log log L. In this paper we will show that sup j |S n j (f )| 1,∞ C f 1 log log(10 + f ∞ f 1
).As a direct consequence we obtain that S n j f → f a.e. for f ∈ L log log L log log log L. The (discrete) Walsh model version of this last fact was proved by Do and Lacey but their methods do not (re)cover the (continuous) Fourier setting. The key ingredient for our proof is a tile decomposition of the operator sup j |S n j (f )| which depends on both the function f and on the lacunary structure of the frequencies. This tile decomposition, called (f, λ)-lacunary, is directly adapted to the context of our problem, and, combined with a canonical mass decomposition of the tiles, provides the natural environment to which the methods developed by the author in "On the boundedness of the Carleson operator near L 1 " apply.