ATP Tour Archives: 04/2014

After its record-breaking rise in prize-money in 2013, Wimbledon has again upped the stakes for the other three Majors with another hike in its 2014…

Spanish players have, for over a decade, dominated proceedings at the oldest tennis club in Spain, and this week in Barcelona they looked set to…

The semi-finals in a blustery Barcelona certainly didn’t produce the line-up that most might have anticipated at the start of the tournament. For a start,…

Only once in almost a decade has the famous tournament at the historic Real Club de Tenis Barcelona been without its most illustrious champion, Rafael…

It may not have been the most auspicious start for Andy Murray’s homecoming. The plane he took back to the UK from training in Paris…

When defending champion Novak Djokovic left the Centre Court of the Monte Carlo Country Club after losing his semi-final to Roger Federer last weekend, the…

There must be few other professional sports, especially at the elite level represented by the Monte Carlo Masters this week, where the last two standing—rivals…

For the first time since the Australian Open in the first month of the year, the Monte-Carlo Masters semi-finals boasted four top-10 players. Yet for…

The 56 men who had the not inconsiderable pleasure of taking to the near-perfect courts of the Monte-Carlo Country Club this week have been whittled…

It is a sure sign that spring has arrived in Europe. Bare trees are weighed down with blossom. The dark earth is suddenly vibrant with…

As the British team prepared for the final day of competition against Italy on the clay of Naples, there was a real air of optimism…

There are many qualities that make the world’s largest annual international team competition, the Davis Cup, a rather special tournament. Last year, more than half…

There are surprises at every turn in this year’s Davis Cup quarter-finals, and those surprises are ensuring that tennis fever takes an ever stronger grip…