Wimbledon 2015: Feeling hot, hot, hot – for Federer, Nadal and Murray fans
Spare a thought for those at the All England Club who have the job of deciding the schedule on a day like this first Tuesday.…
Roger Federer Archives: 06/2015
Wimbledon 2015: Roger Federer and his favourite tournament prepare for turf wars
To the casual observer, it could have been a regular chat at the end of a regular club knock-about between some folk in regular tennis…
Wimbledon 2015: Murray faces Nadal, Federer, then Djokovic in title bid
Whatever prayers the defending champion Novak Djokovic offered up to the Wimbledon gods ahead of Friday’s draw, they worked. The world No1 and top seed…
Ill-starred Philipp Kohlschreiber talks Federer, grass – and that backhand
The Wimbledon men’s seedings were released on Wednesday, and it’s fair to say there were not too many surprises. The two who contested last year’s…
Roger Federer breaks new ground with eighth Halle win and 15th grass title
There were times, in Roger Federer’s first match in defence of his Halle title, that it looked as though he may not make it even…
Halle 2015: Roger Federer scores No50 over Karlovic to reach 10th final
The stars were all aligned, it seemed, for Halle’s favourite son, Roger Federer, to make more history on the grass of this newly-promoted 500 tournament.…
Halle 2015: Seven-time champ Roger Federer faces down defeat in thriller
Half of Roger Federer’s meetings against old friend Philipp Kohlschreiber had been played on grass. One of them was at Wimbledon, in 2009, and three…
Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer prepare to face double-edged sword of rankings
The problem with being one of the best tennis players in the world, setting records only to break them, stacking up Grand Slam titles and…
Grass Class feature: Federer, Murray, and Hewitt lead the green party
With a quarter-final run on the clay of Roland Garros in his rear-view mirror, Roger Federer summed up on Twitter his pleasure at what lay…
French Open 2015: Wawrinka and Bacsinszky keep Swiss rolling as Federer falls
It has proved to be a something of groundbreaker for the nation with a population approximately the size as Greater London: Switzerland had, for the…
French Open 2015: ‘Pumped up’ Roger Federer beats Gael Monfils
As if the contest for a quarter-final place between Roger Federer and Gael Monfils was not tough enough, the weather made sure it was a…