us open 2012

Finally, it seems, a nation can pause to draw breath. The ride we have taken with Andy Murray through the high summer of 2013 has…

The Australian Open may once have been considered the poor relation of the Grand Slam circuit, with its distance from the beaten track of Europe…

After enduring five years of delayed men’s finals, the complaints of players about the unique schedule of the US Open have brought a change that…

Although Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal had dominated the headlines and the top two ranking places since the start of the year, Roger Federer was…

When Andy Murray faced the media at the ATP World Tour Finals for the last time, it was Remembrance Day, and one day short of…

These are testing times for one of tennis’s most intense and most intensely followed men: Rafael Nadal. He has the kind of physical presence, unbreakable…

Autumn: The season of warm sunshine and cool evenings, of golden mornings and burnished afternoons, of dewy lawns and slanting shadows. It’s a season of…

It turned into one of the most memorable US Open’s of recent years. The weather may have been familiar, the climax on a third Monday,…

The signs were, if not in the stars then in the skies over London and New York. On one side of the Atlantic, summer gave…

They were the last two men standing. After tornadoes, heat in the 30s and humidity close to saturation, monsoon-style showers and gale-force winds, the No2…

The last women’s Grand Slam match of the year may have had to sit out the New York storms, but this particular Flushing Meadows cloud…

It was Super Saturday at the 2012 US Open, so the forecast must be rain. Well, the threat of rain at least—enough to ensure that…

As surely as night followed day, so it had become a near certainty that the last four men standing at the sharp end of a…

Andy Murray may have reached the final of the US Open before, along with three other Grand Slam finals. He may have reached the semis…

Mardy Fish, the American No23 seed, has withdrawn from his scheduled fourth-round match this afternoon against Roger Federer, citing “health concerns.” Alarm bells began to…

The 128 men and 128 women have been whittled down to just 16 men and 12 women as Labor Day announces the second week of…

Eighteen-year-old Laura Robson, the youngest player in the top 100, seems to have grown before our eyes. It is just a year ago that here,…

The day before his 30th birthday, Andy Roddick talked of the burden of the modern game and why it is so hard for young players…

It appears that quality will out when it comes to the women’s draw at the US Open. Of the top dozen seeds, only two have…

Two of tennis’s pin-up boys were, conveniently, both given the big stages on one of the busiest days of the US Open fortnight: Labour Day…

When the draw for the US Open was made, all British eyes searched for where the three British women in the main draw had fallen.…