Roger Federer Archives: 11/2012

It was the summer of 1998, and the world’s best young tennis player was about to take his first step into the professional tour. Roger…

The final of finals, the season’s climax between the top tennis players of the year, saw the best of the best, the No1 and No2…

It all ends here. Such has been the message—writ large and spoken with foreboding—ahead of each match of the 2012 ATP World Tour Finals. If…

With one finalist in the frame, the second proved to be a still more intriguing match-up. Roger Federer and Andy Murray had played 18 times…

The final day of round-robin competition brought one of the most highly anticipated matches of the week—an extraordinary eighth meeting in 2012 between two of…

By the time Andy Murray and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga took to court on Friday night, the qualification issue was pretty straightforward, thanks to Novak Djokovic’s defeat…

It’s the half-way stage at the World Tour Finals, and some things never change. Novak Djokovic has beaten Andy Murray in yet another classic, race-to-the-wire…

The task facing David Ferrer in his second match at the World Tour Finals was truly formidable. He had played Roger Federer 13 times across…

The main arena at the O2 is well used to the sartorial superiority of the two top-ranked men in tennis. Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic,…

If No1 Novak Djokovic took centre stage on day one, it was possibly the king of the ATP World Tour Finals, world No2 Roger Federer,…

The popularity of Roger Federer seems to continue undiminished. Yet again, he has been honoured by both his peers and by tennis fans in categories…

None of the men taking part in the season’s climax at The O2 this week have made any secret of their desire to win what…

With two days to go until the biggest indoor tennis tournament in the world gets under way—and with one man still in action across the…