Wimbledon 2012: Three-set thriller was a gut check – Serena Williams
Serena Williams described her three-set victory over China’s Jie Zheng as a “gut check” after the American won the third set 9-7 to set up…
Roger Federer Archives: 06/2012
Wimbledon 2012: Federer survives thriller against old friend Benneteau
It was, as they say, like dejà vu all over again. Dejà vu from 2010 when Roger Federer went two sets and a break down…
Wimbledon 2012: Federer, Djokovic and a prince called Charles
It was a day for royal welcomes, tutored handshakes and awkward bows when the Centre Court Royal Box at Wimbledon hosted the highest-profile name since…
Wimbledon 2012: Roger Federer talks perfection
The boy can’t help it—though perhaps as the poster-boy for a burgeoning band of 30-somethings in men’s tennis, Roger Federer deserves something more decorous than…
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…
Djokovic, Murray and co prepare for Wimbledon at The Boodles
In England, it’s ‘the season’: the warm, green, laid-back month of June that heralds the arrival of the all-too-short grass-court window between the French Open…
Halle 2012: Haas beats friend Federer for the 1st time in a decade
With the grand sweep of London’s grass racing over the horizon, Roger Federer seemed to have found just the right form at just the right…
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: Djokovic seals Parisian revenge over Federer
It was Roger Federer’s 50th straight Grand Slam, his 14th straight French Open, his seventh semi-final in Paris as he aimed for his sixth Roland…
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…
French Open 2012: Del Potro rues ‘intensity drop’ against Federer
Juan Martin Del Potro admitted a drop in intensity cost him a place in the French Open semi-finals after the Argentine was beaten 3-6 6-7…
French Open 2012: Mathieu, Benneteau and flights of fancy
The draws in Paris did, of course, boast ample measures of French interest and not simply because of the wild card places that are the…