2013’s tennis best bits: Djokovic, Del Potro, Wawrinka in magical matches
Part two in our review of the year’s most compelling matches looks at numbers one to three. 1. Wimbledon semi-finals: Novak Djokovic beat Juan Martin…
Part two in our review of the year’s most compelling matches looks at numbers one to three. 1. Wimbledon semi-finals: Novak Djokovic beat Juan Martin…
Once again, The O2 in London has proved to be a near perfect setting for the climax of the men’s tennis tour. There is no…
The debate about who is the ‘greatest ever’ tennis player will no doubt fill column inches for as long as fuzzy yellow balls are hit…
Eight men, eight days, and more than a quarter of a million fans—and it all comes down in the end to the top two players…
Novak Djokovic, defending champion, had put up some fight against Richard Gasquet in his third and final round robin match just 24 hours before his…
This time last year, in this place at this tournament, the picture was very different for the two pin-ups of tennis. Rafael Nadal had been…
In the end, the final place in the semi-finals of last tournament of the year, the prestigious ATP World Tour Finals, would have nothing to…
It turned into one of the most unusual post-match news conferences of the year when Novak Djokovic arrived after his round-robin victory over Roger Federer…
The round-robin format of the ATP World Tour Finals, featuring as it does the best eight tennis players in the world, is a delight for…
If Roger Federer and Richard Gasquet provided a taste-bud-tingling aperitif in the second round of Group B action, what followed promised to be one of…
Roger Federer may have lost to Richard Gasquet only twice in a dozen previous meetings, but the match they were about to play may have…
Roger Federer appeared in less familiar dress on Centre Court at the ATP World Tour Finals on Wednesday. No banadana, no Nike apparel, but instead…
All it needed was one more match win and Rafael Nadal, who missed the season finale in London a year ago, and dropped to No5…
Novak Djokovic has described Viktor Troicki’s ban for failing to provide a blood sample as a “total injustice” and admits that he has lost faith…
And so to the second blockbuster of the second day at the ATP World Tour Finals, and for the second time, a replay of a…
It would normally be seen as an extraordinary occasion at the ATP World Tour Finals when the biggest three names in men’s tennis of the…
As soon as the draw was made, and the last to qualify, Richard Gasquet, was dropped into the same group as Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer…
For the first time since 2009, the year-end No1 will not be signed, sealed and delivered before its two chief combatants take to court at…
As tennis’s finale gets under way in London, it is the season of appraisals, of measures, of best-evers and best-of-the-years. It is award time, when…
It was in Paris that one of the hardest working men in tennis, the head-down, no-nonsense, scurrying 30-year-old David Ferrer, won his first Masters title…
Already in Paris, some gauntlets had been firmly thrown down by one ATP World Tour Finals quartet to the other. World No1 Rafael Nadal put…