ATP Tour Archives: 06/2014

Things were, thus far, working out quite nicely for Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, both former Wimbledon champions, friends and rivals born within a week…

It has become a section of the draw that could turn into a battle of the generations. The bottom half threw four of the most…

It’s the quiet before the storm, the early hours at the All England Club before the gates open, before the walkways become dense with fans,…

Things had been pretty straight-forward for defending champion and home favourite, Andy Murray, in the first week of Wimbledon. He got past a tricky first-round…

The pre-match statistics about Roger Federer’s campaign to avoid his shock second-round exit of last year’s Wimbledon came up with a very upbeat finding. They…

For the world No1 and second seed at Wimbledon, this was nothing less than a very important day for the two-time former champion Rafael Nadal.…

It was midway through a tight—indeed edgy—contest between Tomas Berdych and Bernard Tomic that a collective sigh of disbelief, and not a little disappointment, filled…

This time last year, the first Wednesday at Wimbledon started like any other, but by its end, things were far from normal. Already Rafael Nadal…

It would have been quite understandable if there were some nerves and tension in the legs and shoulders of three of the biggest names in…

At every turn in the last couple of years, there have been men of a certain age proving that turning 30 is no barrier to…

And so it begins. A fortnight short of a year, Andy Murray took to Centre Court for a moment he must surely have dreamt about…

Just looking at the titles and achievements of Wimbledon’s top seed, Novak Djokovic, is enough to raise the heart-rate of your average tennis player. The…

Roger Federer seems always to be the calm eye amid the storm that accompanies the start of any Grand Slam tournament, and especially so at…

Rafael Nadal insists that he has no extra motivation ahead of Wimbledon following Spain’s dismal exit from the World Cup. The defending champions were knocked…

The All England Club has released the seedings for The Championships that begin on Monday next and, as always when it comes to Wimbledon, the…

The tennis of Ernests Gulbis stood out from the first. It was perhaps around 2007 that followers of this sport began to sit up and…

With the grass-court season just one week old, the shortest and, for many, the sweetest swing of the tennis year has seen two starry names…

Tommy Haas’ management company has revealed that the popular 36-year-old former world No2 is to undergo urgent surgery on his right shoulder. Owner of 15…

It was not perhaps the final that many had anticipated at the Aegon Championships, but it would guarantee one thing: a new name on one…

It was exactly a year ago that Andy Murray took to Queen’s Club’s Centre Court to play an exhibition match for the Royal Marsden Cancer…

The weather forecast for semi-final Saturday was wonderful: 21 degrees, modest humidity, gentle breezes. In fact, just about perfect after a week during which barely…