2013’s tennis best bits: Djokovic, Del Potro, Wawrinka in magical matches
Part two in our review of the year’s most compelling matches looks at numbers one to three. 1. Wimbledon semi-finals: Novak Djokovic beat Juan Martin…
Part two in our review of the year’s most compelling matches looks at numbers one to three. 1. Wimbledon semi-finals: Novak Djokovic beat Juan Martin…
Two down, half a dozen to go, but to leaven this year’s weighty series of reviews, here’s the first of a lightweight, unashamedly superficial interlude.…
Once again, The O2 in London has proved to be a near perfect setting for the climax of the men’s tennis tour. There is no…
Eight men, eight days, and more than a quarter of a million fans—and it all comes down in the end to the top two players…
This time last year, in this place at this tournament, the picture was very different for the two pin-ups of tennis. Rafael Nadal had been…
In the end, the final place in the semi-finals of last tournament of the year, the prestigious ATP World Tour Finals, would have nothing to…
It turned into one of the most unusual post-match news conferences of the year when Novak Djokovic arrived after his round-robin victory over Roger Federer…
Roger Federer may have lost to Richard Gasquet only twice in a dozen previous meetings, but the match they were about to play may have…
Roger Federer appeared in less familiar dress on Centre Court at the ATP World Tour Finals on Wednesday. No banadana, no Nike apparel, but instead…
And so to the second blockbuster of the second day at the ATP World Tour Finals, and for the second time, a replay of a…
As tennis’s finale gets under way in London, it is the season of appraisals, of measures, of best-evers and best-of-the-years. It is award time, when…
Already in Paris, some gauntlets had been firmly thrown down by one ATP World Tour Finals quartet to the other. World No1 Rafael Nadal put…
The last regular ATP tournament of the year, the BNP Paribas Masters, has many unique qualities. The only indoor 1000 event in the calendar may…