Rafael Nadal Archives: 11/2013

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…