Andy Murray: The champion who won our hearts
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: […]
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 […]
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 and North America a step […]
Part 3 of the review of 2012 looks at how autumn and winter on the men’s tour saw the race between Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer for year-end No1 and […]
If the start of 2012 belonged to Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, the summer and the grass season threw the other pair in the “big four” into the limelight, as […]
The four seasons of 2012 reflected the dominance of the top four men, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal, better than any year this decade. In the […]
The competition for the prestigious No1 ranking entered a new phase as the top seeds, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, took to the courts of the Shanghai Masters this week. […]
The biggest tournament in the Far East has many things in its favour. The Shanghai Masters is hosted by one of the most vibrant and cosmopolitan cities in China with […]
This time last year, Andy Murray cut a swathe through the Asian swing with a clean sweep of three titles: Bangkok, Tokyo, and finally the Shanghai Masters. It was perhaps […]
The tennis pace picks up with a vengeance during the frenetic three-week Asian swing as two men with ambitions for the year-end No1 and the World Tour Finals title enter […]