ATP Tour Archives: 06/2012

It was, as they say, like dejà vu all over again. Dejà vu from 2010 when Roger Federer went two sets and a break down…

Heather Watson had already thrown down the gauntlet to her fellow Brits with a new landmark at Wimbledon. By winning her second match, she became…

As the bottom half of the men’s draw began its progress to the final, it was hard to know where to look first. This was…

It was the men’s defending champion who opened on Centre Court on the first day of the 126th Championships at Wimbledon. Novak Djokovic made it…

Against all the odds, the opening day of Wimbledon has brought warm and brilliant sunshine to a corner of the world that has spent days—for…

The boy can’t help it—though perhaps as the poster-boy for a burgeoning band of 30-somethings in men’s tennis, Roger Federer deserves something more decorous than…

Once again, Wimbledon looks set to become the battleground for the race to be No1 in the world. In 2011, Novak Djokovic won his first…

With Wimbledon on the horizon, hopes for Andy Murray will again crescendo during the last few days before the tennis world’s finest take to the…

In England, it’s ‘the season’: the warm, green, laid-back month of June that heralds the arrival of the all-too-short grass-court window between the French Open…

When Argentine David Nalbandian took to court after a truly eventful Aegon Championships to play his first final on grass since Wimbledon 2002, he seemed…

With the grand sweep of London’s grass racing over the horizon, Roger Federer seemed to have found just the right form at just the right…

It may not have been the line-up that most envisaged for semi-final Saturday in the heart of London. Not one of the five top-20 men…

It may not have been the line-up that most envisaged for semi-final Saturday in the heart of London. Not one of the five top-20 men…

They have played one another 28 times and have, still, the most electric rivalry of the last decade. So the Gerry Weber Open—the younger upstart…

OK, so the top seed was gone, so were the fourth, seventh, 11th and more – but those who were left at the halfway stage…

Things may not have gone strictly to play at this year’s Aegon Championships. It lost the first day to rain, it lost its defending champion,…

As if in celebration, the sun came out on the day that the top eight seeds started their grass campaign. Against all the odds and…

All eyes will be on Andy Murray when he opens his campaign for a third Aegon Championship title at the Queen’s Club this week but,…

Andy Murray may have left the clay of Paris a little earlier than hoped, but a tough draw and less-than-perfect physical condition certainly did not…

Against all the odds and all the forecasts, two men took to Paris’s Philippe Chatrier court at their allotted time, on a third Monday at…

And so the rivalry of the decade headed towards perhaps its most telling confrontation. It was here, in 2010, on France’s famous terracotta, that the…