ATP Tour Archives: 05/2013

Roland Garros may have been burdened by troublesome weather as the French Open tried to complete its bulging first two rounds, but in one element…

Dawn broke on another damp morning in Paris, but the final day of second-round action got under way on time, albeit under gloomy, cool skies.…

Roger Federer has rarely been a man for one-word answers, rarely been short of an opinion, and rarely been caught off guard by a question—and…

The last couple of months have seen the ATP Tour visit the burnt orange courts of some of the most glamorous venues in the world.…

Seven years ago at the Foro Italico, one of the greatest rivalries in tennis was still in its infancy. The 24-year-old Roger Federer had already…

The No5 and No6 seeds, Rafael Nadal and Tomas Berdych, had met many times during the decade that both had been pros on the main…

When it was suggested to Roger Federer, after he became the last remaining seed in his half of the draw, that things had opened up…

Rome was not ready. Having reached the quarter-final stage of the tournament with just one seed remaining in the bottom half, Roger Federer, and the…

With eight of the tournament’s 16 seeds already sent home before the third round, the Rome Masters must have been holding its breathe as the…

It’s Rome, one of the most glamorous stops on clay road to Roland Garros. It’s usually a place drenched in sunshine, wall-to-wall in Mediterranean colour,…

The day he turned 24, Andy Murray had just played one of his finest ever clay matches. It was 2011 and the calendar had just…

On the day when the big guns fired up at the Foro Italico, the quarter that might be titled ‘single-handed backhand corner’ put on a…

Rome is the last major stop on the way to the clay-season climax at Roland Garros in around 10 days’ time. The sun-drenched, marble-white Foro…

Rafael Nadal reflected on a “special” victory after the Spaniard swept past Stanislas Wawrinka to win the Madrid Masters for the third time. The world…

When Rafael Nadal comes to Rome, the third and final clay-court Masters in this most glamorous of seasons, he will begin a campaign that could…

This is a tournament of strong contrasts, of cool grey metal married with hot orange dust, of modern line and angle overlooking the crescent shaped…

It was the day that the top three men in tennis—Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Andy Murray—opened their campaigns on Madrid’s startling orange show court…

For a shot that is, time and again, dismissed as a dying art, there have been an awful lot of single-handed backhands to admire on…

While the history of the tennis fiesta that opens in Madrid this weekend may be short, it has certainly been packed with incident. The Mutua…

Basel is a city that feels no need to shout about itself. Sitting astride the Rhine, it rubs shoulders with the French and German borders,…