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…
Two down, half a dozen to go, but to leaven this year’s weighty series of reviews, here’s the first of a lightweight, unashamedly superficial interlude.…
Defending champions the Czech Republic, despite entering the Serbian lion’s den of Belgrade this weekend, and despite seeing the formidable world No2 Novak Djokovic in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The last regular ATP tournament of the year, the BNP Paribas Masters, has many unique qualities. The only indoor 1000 event in the calendar may…