Roger Federer: harvesting the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Autumn: The season of warm sunshine and cool evenings, of golden mornings and burnished afternoons, of dewy lawns and slanting shadows. It’s a season of…
Roger Federer Archives: 09/2012
Federer, Ferrer, Del Potro lead seven top-12 men in big Davis Cup ties
Davis Cup forces a tough turn-around after an exhausting summer of tennis, and the demands are especially heavy on the high-ranked men who have gone…
Andy Murray lights the final beacon in Britain’s 2012 summer
The signs were, if not in the stars then in the skies over London and New York. On one side of the Atlantic, summer gave…
US Open 2012: Roger Federer into last eight as Mardy Fish pulls out
Mardy Fish, the American No23 seed, has withdrawn from his scheduled fourth-round match this afternoon against Roger Federer, citing “health concerns.” Alarm bells began to…
US Open 2012: Top seeds Federer and Azarenka head week two
The 128 men and 128 women have been whittled down to just 16 men and 12 women as Labor Day announces the second week of…
US Open 2012: Roger Federer and Andy Murray defeat Spanish Armada
Two of tennis’s pin-up boys were, conveniently, both given the big stages on one of the busiest days of the US Open fortnight: Labour Day…