Roger Federer Archives: 05/2012

The French Open is perhaps the most elegant of the Slams, the most aesthetically pleasing of all tennis tournaments. Its clay is a particularly deep…

This week in Paris, the sun has suddenly put its hat on — and what better time to bathe the sparkling burnt orange courts of…

Put the win stats, the title stats, the year-to-date stats, and even the head-to-head stats side by side, and Roger Federer looked the favourite to…

For the two champions who high-tailed it to Rome from Madrid with winners’ trophies, the sun began to shine on their campaigns as well as…

Roger Federer is not usually regarded as a player easily affected by the vagaries of intemperate weather. The calm Swiss is the one often described…

Rome dawned on the first second-round day at the Foro Italico in an altogether kinder mood. The wind was a little lighter and the temperature…

Go back a decade in this illustrious, historic tennis tournament and the honours board is dominated by an exclusive set of men who are still…

It was a day to be born under a different star sign. The domain of Gemini may be a week away, but on this Sunday…

Big men, big games, and big-time tennis: These were the qualities that brought No6 seed Tomas Berdych and No10 seed Juan Martin del Potro into…

The Mutua Madrid Open may be half done, the vast majority of the seeds may have reached their allotted third-round places and the sun may…

Well it worked. There have been more headlines, more discussions, more debates about the Madrid Open before the tennis even began to satisfy the most…