US Open 2012: Konta bows out of New York but aims for Australia
Johanna Konta had already made a name for herself here in New York, striding through three qualifying rounds and then winning her first career Grand…
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US Open 2012: Andy Roddick set to retire from tennis
In a shock announcement on the afternoon of his 30th birthday, Andy Roddick told the media at Flushing Meadows that he had decided to retire…
US Open 2012: Djokovic, Federer, Americans & more first-round news
The first round in the US Open men’s draw has been a story of the long and the short, but in the end of relatively…
US Open 2012: Andy Murray into second round after early hiccup
Andy Murray began a campaign on the opening day of the US Open that could turn him into a very rare breed indeed. For there…
US Open 2012: Impressive Li Na dashes Heather Watson hopes
British No1 Heather Watson has not had the best of fortune when it comes to draws on the big stages of women’s tennis. At this…
US Open 2012: Djokovic, Murray and more in words and pictures
The US Open is the second oldest of the four Grand Slams after Wimbledon—and it is the last, the biggest and most richly rewarded of…
US Open 2012: Facing Roger Federer
It doesn’t seem to matter what spot you put him on, what audience you put before him, or what challenge you throw at him. Roger…
US Open 2012: Djokovic and Kvitova to play for tennis’s biggest prize
The Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre is a blaze of noise, colour and excitement, filled with families, children, and bands of dayglo-clad school groups.…
US Open 2012: Federer, Djokovic, Murray & Ferrer head men’s seedings
With Roger Federer’s No1 consolidated by his fifth Cincinnati Masters title on Sunday, the five-time US Open champion has been named top seed in the…
Tim Henman on Andy Murray, the US Open and inspiring 20,000 more
The talk and the toast of London town in the summer of 2012, in one particular corner of the Olympic capital, will always be remembered…
Roger Federer masters Cincinnati and Novak Djokovic
There was a certain inevitability about the line-up come the final day of the Cincinnati Masters. Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic were, after all, playing…
The heat is on: Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic vie for supremacy
World No1 Roger Federer and No2 Novak Djokovic are separated by a mere 75 points in the rankings and top the seedings this week in…
First the Olympics, now Rafael Nadal forced to abandon US Open
World No3 Rafael Nadal has announced that he is unable to play at the last Grand Slam of the year, the US Open. The statement,…
Cincinnati Masters: Nalbandian & Haas meet triumph & disaster again
It’s the last Masters of the US Open Series—Cincinnati—but it will be the first time that the big guns of men’s tennis have faced one…
Novak Djokovic and hard courts emerge from Olympic shadows
The height of 2012’s tennis summer has revelled in one of its longest and most dazzling grass seasons. Since early June, the telescope has been…