Rafael Nadal Archives: 05/2013

The last couple of months have seen the ATP Tour visit the burnt orange courts of some of the most glamorous venues in the world.…

Seven years ago at the Foro Italico, one of the greatest rivalries in tennis was still in its infancy. The 24-year-old Roger Federer had already…

The No5 and No6 seeds, Rafael Nadal and Tomas Berdych, had met many times during the decade that both had been pros on the main…

Rome was not ready. Having reached the quarter-final stage of the tournament with just one seed remaining in the bottom half, Roger Federer, and the…

With eight of the tournament’s 16 seeds already sent home before the third round, the Rome Masters must have been holding its breathe as the…

It’s Rome, one of the most glamorous stops on clay road to Roland Garros. It’s usually a place drenched in sunshine, wall-to-wall in Mediterranean colour,…

Rafael Nadal reflected on a “special” victory after the Spaniard swept past Stanislas Wawrinka to win the Madrid Masters for the third time. The world…

When Rafael Nadal comes to Rome, the third and final clay-court Masters in this most glamorous of seasons, he will begin a campaign that could…

This is a tournament of strong contrasts, of cool grey metal married with hot orange dust, of modern line and angle overlooking the crescent shaped…

While the history of the tennis fiesta that opens in Madrid this weekend may be short, it has certainly been packed with incident. The Mutua…