ATP Tour Archives: 10/2012

Before it even began, the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris Bercy, the last of tennis’s Masters tournaments—indeed the last regular men’s tournament of the year—had…

For the seventh time in 2012, Roger Federer and Juan Martin del Potro faced one another across a tennis court, the latest contest in what…

The semi-finals in Basel held rather fewer surprises than their opposite number in Valencia. The three top seeds were all present and correct: Roger Federer,…

The evening session of Basel’s quarter-final day promised both the home-town boy and defending champion, Roger Federer, and the man too often burdened with the…

As the Basel draw funnelled into its final stages, there was more and more to make the mouth water. The top two seeds, the two…

France boasted four men in the Swiss Indoors draw, a tally equalled only by the home nation, and it will see three of them in…

Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from the Paris Masters and ATP World Tour finals due to a left knee injury. The world No4 has not played…

With little more than a week to go, and key contenders Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Janko Tipsarevic retiring in their first-round matches in Valencia, the final…

Roger Federer had only played the tall, aggressive left-hander from Brazil, Thomaz Bellucci, once before. However, that first meeting, in Indian Wells this year, was…

It was one of those bizarre moments that you get in tennis but in few other sports at the highest level of competition. On Basel’s…

It seemed only right that Juan Carlos Ferrero, former French Open champion and world No1, should bid farewell to his long and golden career in…

The problem with Nikolay Davydenko in recent years has been that, when he’s good, he’s very, very good, but when he’s been bad he’s not…

There is one fact that may have gone unnoticed about the headline names in Valencia and Basel this week—indeed one factor that permeates both the…

The Grand Slams have been and gone, the Asian swing has been short and sweet, and the tennis tour has headed to Europe for the…

There are only three precious places left on the plane to London for the season-ending climax in 14 days’ time, and the big men of…

The second round of an end-of-season ATP 250 tournament may not be the high-spot of a year that celebrated Andy Murray taking Olympic gold on…

Ahead of their 16th meeting, their sixth of 2012, Novak Djokovic was quick to quell any idea that he was after revenge for his two…

For the first time in more than two years, the top four seeds contested a place in a Masters final, and three of them—Novak Djokovic,…

The competition for the prestigious No1 ranking entered a new phase as the top seeds, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, took to the courts of…

The biggest tournament in the Far East has many things in its favour. The Shanghai Masters is hosted by one of the most vibrant and…

Two of the rising stars of the men’s tour, 21-year-old Milos Raonic and 22-year-old Kei Nishikori continued their David and Goliath antics in Tokyo to…