Juan Martín del Potro

Wednesday dawned in the kind of near-perfect manner that the folk of Indian Wells must take for granted. The sky was blue—almost the indigo of…

For the first time in its history, the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship boasted the top four seeds in the semi-finals – and what a…

It took minutes rather than hours for the third and fourth seeds Tomas Berdych and Juan Martin del Potro to race through their daytime quarter-finals…

So the prestigious, award-winning, $2m Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships are down to the last eight, and each of the quarter-finals has its allotted seed.…

It’s mid-week at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Centre, and the 32 men who began the journey towards a share of the $2m prize money…

The second day at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships was like a fine box of chocolates: The selection of matches catered for every taste…

The odds may have been stacked against the 31-year-old Frenchman Julien Benneteau, but even the most hard-hearted of tennis followers would surely have found a…

They had never met before, the No2 seed Juan Martin del Potro and the younger man newly into the top 40, Grigor Dimitrov. It was,…

With the ABN AMRO championships in Rotterdam reaching the half-way stage and the second round nearing completion, the quarter-final line-up was almost set. Thus far,…

It was still only day two, yet there had already been rather more upsets than the 40th anniversary edition of the prestigious Rotterdam 500 might…

The rigours of the tennis year begin early and demand much. Steamy tournaments in Doha, Chennai and the Antipodes barely work limbs and rackets into…

Andy Murray had enjoyed an unbeaten season in the Far East swing of 2011 but this time he came away without a title. Novak Djokovic…

It was a day for the history books. Semi-final Sunday at the World Tour Finals would welcome the one millionth fan through the doors and…

The final day of round-robin competition brought one of the most highly anticipated matches of the week—an extraordinary eighth meeting in 2012 between two of…

By the time Andy Murray and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga took to court on Friday night, the qualification issue was pretty straightforward, thanks to Novak Djokovic’s defeat…

It’s the half-way stage at the World Tour Finals, and some things never change. Novak Djokovic has beaten Andy Murray in yet another classic, race-to-the-wire…

Looking at the career record of Juan Martin del Potro, and at his size and his power, it may come as a surprise that he…

With two days to go until the biggest indoor tennis tournament in the world gets under way—and with one man still in action across the…

For the seventh time in 2012, Roger Federer and Juan Martin del Potro faced one another across a tennis court, the latest contest in what…

The semi-finals in Basel held rather fewer surprises than their opposite number in Valencia. The three top seeds were all present and correct: Roger Federer,…

The evening session of Basel’s quarter-final day promised both the home-town boy and defending champion, Roger Federer, and the man too often burdened with the…