ATP Tour Archives: 03/2014

In the end, the road to the title match of the Miami Masters may have been unconventional, but there was still a certain inevitability about…

Rafael Nadal may last year have put together one of the finest comebacks from injury ever made on a tennis court: He claimed 10 titles…

For three matches in a row, the slender, 24-year-old world No21, Kei Nishikori, has beaten a higher-ranked player, but reached the second Masters semi-final of…

The big Tuesday schedule in Miami had already produced some big matches and a couple of big upsets. It was no surprise that Novak Djokovic…

For many, this stage of the impressive 96-man draw in Miami is the best of the entire tournament. It’s the fourth round, and the day…

The bottom half of the huge Miami draw was already down to the last eight, and it had worked out precisely according to plan. The…

Billed as Super Sunday, this packed day in Miami was hot, humid and high on adrenalin as the third round of the men’s draw got…

The big headlines on the first day of the men’s draw at the Sony Open Tennis tournament ended up being less about what was happening…

It’s more than a dozen years since a pugnacious, bristling, in-your-face young Australian named Lleyton Hewitt, aged just 20, became tennis’s youngest No1 player. He…

The saturated colours of Miami’s Key Biscayne provide a glamorous backdrop for the tropical, high-octane Sony Open tennis tournament. Set in evergreen woodland, surrounded by…

For an entire decade, the men’s tennis landscape has been dominated by a remarkable quartet of players. Since 2004, only two men not named Roger…

When world No2 Novak Djokovic took to court to play his way to his first final of the 2014, he was aware that John Isner…

When all is said and done, things turned out pretty well for Indian Wells this year. Considering how top-heavy the men’s draw appeared to be,…

“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” James M Barrie With the midday sun high…

The sharp end of the Indian Wells draw may be missing five of the top six seeds, including the No1 and defending champion Rafael Nadal,…

He may be the only remaining top-five player left standing in Indian Wells, but the No2 seed and two-time former champion Novak Djokovic almost didn’t…

As he arrived with burgeoning family in tow to this tranquil corner of California, this mountain-fringed desert resort of Indian Wells, Roger Federer must surely…

With almost a week of action and 80 men down, Indian Wells prepared for one of the most intense days of competition in the entire…

The biggest name to play for a place in the fourth round in the bottom half of the Indian Wells draw was unquestionably the No2…

The stars conspired against the defending champions at Indian Wells in an afternoon of shocks on the glorious Centre Court in California’s desert oasis. Both…

Four of the remaining top five players in the Indian Wells draw packed Monday’s top-notch schedule in the magnificent oasis in the Californian desert. The…