Roger Federer Archives: 10/2012

For the seventh time in 2012, Roger Federer and Juan Martin del Potro faced one another across a tennis court, the latest contest in what…

The semi-finals in Basel held rather fewer surprises than their opposite number in Valencia. The three top seeds were all present and correct: Roger Federer,…

The evening session of Basel’s quarter-final day promised both the home-town boy and defending champion, Roger Federer, and the man too often burdened with the…

Roger Federer had only played the tall, aggressive left-hander from Brazil, Thomaz Bellucci, once before. However, that first meeting, in Indian Wells this year, was…

There is one fact that may have gone unnoticed about the headline names in Valencia and Basel this week—indeed one factor that permeates both the…

When you’ve been coming to a place every year since you were 18—as Roger Federer has done to the Swiss Indoors tournament—it must feel like…

The Grand Slams have been and gone, the Asian swing has been short and sweet, and the tennis tour has headed to Europe for the…

With the the year-end No1 still up for grabs by Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, the race to one of the top prizes in this…

For the first time in more than two years, the top four seeds contested a place in a Masters final, and three of them—Novak Djokovic,…

This has become, it seems, the tournament of targets and milestones. Along with a dozen or so men competing for a place in the World…

The competition for the prestigious No1 ranking entered a new phase as the top seeds, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, took to the courts of…

The biggest tournament in the Far East has many things in its favour. The Shanghai Masters is hosted by one of the most vibrant and…

The tennis pace picks up with a vengeance during the frenetic three-week Asian swing as two men with ambitions for the year-end No1 and the…