Winter closes in on Rafael Nadal’s stormy year
These are testing times for one of tennis’s most intense and most intensely followed men: Rafael Nadal. He has the kind of physical presence, unbreakable…
ATP Tour Archives: 09/2012
Roger Federer: harvesting the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Autumn: The season of warm sunshine and cool evenings, of golden mornings and burnished afternoons, of dewy lawns and slanting shadows. It’s a season of…
Andy Murray lights the final beacon in Britain’s 2012 summer
The signs were, if not in the stars then in the skies over London and New York. On one side of the Atlantic, summer gave…
US Open 2012: Mighty Andy Murray makes 76-year history in New York
They were the last two men standing. After tornadoes, heat in the 30s and humidity close to saturation, monsoon-style showers and gale-force winds, the No2…
US Open 2012: Andy Murray routs Milos Raonic to reach quarter-finals
Andy Murray may have reached the final of the US Open before, along with three other Grand Slam finals. He may have reached the semis…
US Open 2012: Roger Federer into last eight as Mardy Fish pulls out
Mardy Fish, the American No23 seed, has withdrawn from his scheduled fourth-round match this afternoon against Roger Federer, citing “health concerns.” Alarm bells began to…
US Open 2012: Top seeds Federer and Azarenka head week two
The 128 men and 128 women have been whittled down to just 16 men and 12 women as Labor Day announces the second week of…
US Open 2012: Ferrer tops Hewitt in battle of over-30 warriors
The day before his 30th birthday, Andy Roddick talked of the burden of the modern game and why it is so hard for young players…
US Open 2012: Roger Federer and Andy Murray defeat Spanish Armada
Two of tennis’s pin-up boys were, conveniently, both given the big stages on one of the busiest days of the US Open fortnight: Labour Day…