ATP Tour Archives: 03/2012

Rafael Nadal has resigned from the ATP Players’ Council after almost four years as its vice-president. Confirmation came initially via the New York Times’ Christopher…

With just one lone unseeded man amongst the 16 who took to Miami’s purple and green for the fourth round of the Sony Ericsson Open,…

Since last August—the eighth to be precise—the questions have sounded like a dripping tap. Roger Federer turned 30 and it has been the talk of…

Hot on the heels of the first and biggest Masters of the year in Indian Wells comes—within barely 48 hours—the second. Miami’s Sony Ericsson Open…

There can be few locations that set off a tennis match better than the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. There can be few centre courts so…

They had to bide their time. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal may have all the star appeal, all the fan appeal and one of the…

It never rains in California—or so the song goes. And it certainly never rains in Palm Springs—well only five days a year—according to every local…

It has become, for the moment at least, the rivalry of 2012. Wherever the paths of Roger Federer and Juan Martin del Potro have crossed,…

When the draw for the BNP Paribas Open was made, those with an interest in David Nalbandian may have looked towards the heavens, let out…

The top three men in the world, all former Indian Wells champions, promised one of the finest afternoon schedules that money could buy when they…

The women are down to the last eight, the men to the last 16—perhaps the tennis fan’s best stage of a tournament. There are top-class…

Precisely 48 hours after embarking on his campaign for a fourth BNP Paribas Open title at Indian Wells, Roger Federer faced what promised to be…

In a venue of deep indigo shadows and vibrant grassy highlights, the players have blended into their surroundings with their own variations of sky and…

When the draws for this year’s BNP Paribas Open were made almost a week ago, they boasted not only 11 former Indian Wells champions and…

The end of Saturday may have been a late and dramatic finish with the exit of No4 seed Andy Murray under the floodlights, and the…

This year had started so much better for Andy Murray than 2011. For while he may have lost to Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open…

The men’s main draw may only just have begun—and none of the women’s or men’s seeds have yet played a match—but the big names have…

He looked, and sounded, a little less chirpy than usual. But then the Roger Federer schedule so far this year is enough to make anyone…

Andy Murray faced just once the man who was born within a week of him in the whole of 2009 and 2010. That single match…

Dubai, one of the most dramatic cities in the world, has its fair share of admirers—among them Roger Federer. For the man who had won…

It was, once again, an all-star line-up in Dubai. The swimming-pool-blue centre court would host seven of the top eight seeds in the day’s quarter-finals—and…