Wimbledon 2012: Rafael Nadal makes dramatic exit to Lukas Rosol
The contrasts were extreme. Rafael Nadal, the world No2, was playing No100 Lukas Rosol; 50 titles playing none; a man playing his eighth Wimbledon, with…
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Wimbledon 2012: Djokovic, Nadal and Federer fight for supremacy
Once again, Wimbledon looks set to become the battleground for the race to be No1 in the world. In 2011, Novak Djokovic won his first…
Navratilova and Agassi see Nadal, Federer, Djokovic denying Murray
When a woman of the stature of Martina Navratilova speaks about tennis, she’s usually worth hearing. When her comments are echoed in the same week…
Rafael Nadal falls short of Roger Federer final in Halle’s hall of fame
They have played one another 28 times and have, still, the most electric rivalry of the last decade. So the Gerry Weber Open—the younger upstart…
French Open 2012: Paris cannot rain on Rafael Nadal’s 7th parade
Against all the odds and all the forecasts, two men took to Paris’s Philippe Chatrier court at their allotted time, on a third Monday at…
French Open 2012: Nadal and Djokovic destiny in the balance
And so the rivalry of the decade headed towards perhaps its most telling confrontation. It was here, in 2010, on France’s famous terracotta, that the…
French Open 2012: Fearless Ferrer falls to fearsome Nadal again
In physical stature he may not be the most gifted: 5ft 9in falls rather short for the ideal tennis player. But David Ferrer is a…