Roger Federer Archives: 02/2013

It took minutes rather than hours for the third and fourth seeds Tomas Berdych and Juan Martin del Potro to race through their daytime quarter-finals…

So the prestigious, award-winning, $2m Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships are down to the last eight, and each of the quarter-finals has its allotted seed.…

Both Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic are multiple winners in Dubai, and the prospect of a final between them—a repeat of the 2011 final—is an…

Timing is everything, and with the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships in full swing when the ATP announced the winners of its tournament awards for…

The buzz throughout the opening day at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships was of Roger Federer, five-time winner and defending champion. He alone of…

In the grander scheme of things, perhaps 40 years is not such a long time, but in the fast-moving kaleidoscope of modern sport it is…

By almost any measure, it would be hard to describe the 24-carat life of Roger Federer tough—and with good reason. Gifted the kind of talent…

And so, after a brief sojourn in Europe and North America, the men’s tour bids farewell to the indoor courts and moves back beneath the…

The collision of stars that took place behind the scenes at the ABN AMRO tennis event in Rotterdam could do no harm at all to…

Roger Federer had been the hot favourite—give or take a certain Juan Martin del Potro—to defend his title in Rotterdam. His chances, and the hopes…

With the ABN AMRO championships in Rotterdam reaching the half-way stage and the second round nearing completion, the quarter-final line-up was almost set. Thus far,…

In case it’s escaped the notice of anyone in the Netherlands, Roger Federer is back in town—in an ice-cold Rotterdam—and everyone wants a piece of…

The rigours of the tennis year begin early and demand much. Steamy tournaments in Doha, Chennai and the Antipodes barely work limbs and rackets into…