ATP Tour Archives: 02/2012

The brief indoor tennis season that began on the Mediterranean coast in Montpellier on the last day of January has concluded its brief run just…

On the Olympics, 1: “When you realise you have a chance to get an Olympic medal for your country, that’s always what you chase, but…

It can be a lonely business, tennis. Two solitary men take to a vast rectangle of a battleground where neither clock nor finishing line can…

Before Roger Federer left Rotterdam’s Centre Court after his tense semifinal victory on Saturday night, he was quick to remind everyone that he and the…

The Ahoy arena, a stunning showcase for tennis’s first ‘500’ of the year, was always going to resonate with the name of Roger Federer, back…

The spell-binding tennis of Richard Gasquet seems to have been around the upper reaches of this sport for years. He turned pro 10 years ago;…

The centre of attention since the Rotterdam 500 got under way has been everyman and top seed Roger Federer. But although he has been practising,…

Roger Federer is in town—in the Netherlands’ second city of Rotterdam, that is—and the place can’t get enough of him. One day after playing the…

With 18 of the 32-man Rotterdam draw held up by Davis Cup duties, the opening day in the serene green surroundings of Ahoy’s Centre Court…

The first three months of the tennis season pose some the tour’s biggest challenges. Barely have the muscles recovered from the black run of the…

Roger Federer ended 2011 on the crest of an autumn wave. Despite losing in the semi-finals of the US Open, he headed straight to Australia…