Roger Federer Archives: 01/2014

Since its first tie in 1900, the Davis Cup has grown into the world’s largest annual international team competition, involving over 5,000 players from across…

When Stan Wawrinka awoke on his first morning as a Grand Slam champion, the reality may finally have begun to sink in. For when he…

It’s easy to focus on the astonishing records put together by the two pin-ups of men’s tennis, world No1 Rafael Nadal and No6 Roger Federer.…

Ever since the draw for this year’s Australian Open was made almost two weeks ago, fingers and toes around the world had been crossed in…

What a difference a year makes? A little over 12 months ago, the tennis world waited patiently to see how the Australian Open draw would…

It’s probably fair to say that Roger Federer and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga know each other pretty well. Before the first Grand Slam of 2014 got under…

In the end, it all got too much at the 2014 Australian Open. The ‘happy slam’ had been battered by too many unhappy players, headlines…

The opening day of the Australian Open had set very fair to showcase the bottom half of the men’s draw. It was headlined, of course,…

So the stage is ready once again to set tennis hearts aflutter as the first Grand Slam of the season, the extrovert, sun-drenched, self-dubbed ‘happy…

When it came to the last match of 2014 on Brisbane’s ‘Pat Rafter’ court, just a week before the start of the Australian Open, it…