Twitter all aflutter again as Roger Federer expects…and delivers
It’s a good thing Roger Federer has an equable temperament because, these days, he can hardly draw breath without making headlines. We have to return to last Christmas Eve for […]
It’s a good thing Roger Federer has an equable temperament because, these days, he can hardly draw breath without making headlines. We have to return to last Christmas Eve for […]
Yet again, the O2 in London proved to be a near perfect setting for the climax of the men’s tennis tour at the end of 2013. There is no denying […]
As the sun rose in the east on the first Monday in March, so began a day of celebration for what has become one of the most global sports in […]
And so, as the ATP World Tour website pronounced a month ago, “the 2014 season begins.” Nothing new there, of course: The men’s tennis tour always starts its New Year […]
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 faced the cheering crowd of […]
It turned into one of the most unusual post-match press conferences of the year. Novak Djokovic had just beaten Roger Federer in his round-robin match at the World Tour Masters […]
The beginning of 2013 was hardly the most auspicious for Rafael Nadal. He was scheduled to return to the tennis stage for the first time since his gruelling—and what turned […]
Perhaps it was written in the stars back in May when the charismatic David Nalbandian disappeared once again to undergo surgery. For the 31-year-old Argentine—a Wimbledon finalist at the age […]
As the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year awards loom on the Christmas horizon, the name on everyone’s lips brought this nation to a standstill one Sunday afternoon in mid-Summer: […]
Against of growing chorus of encouragement from within its ranks—most vociferously Andy Murray and Roger Federer—tennis is set to introduce an Athlete Biological Passport Programme from 2013. The sport’s key […]