Roger Federer, David Ferrer, Jurgen Melzer and More: Still Aiming High at 30

From the Monte Carlo Masters and the Barcelona 500, the clay season has been fanning out through Europe to Portugal, Germany and Serbia before it converges again on road to Madrid, Rome and Paris—surely one of the most glamorous swings in the tennis calendar. The youthful and zesty Rafael Nadal is stealing the headlines wherever his feet hit the red-stuff, and a swathe of young names—Milos... 

Rafa Nadal to Vic Seixas: Records Young and Old Set Barcelona Alight

Rafael Nadal, Spaniard extraordinaire, cannot stay out of the tennis headlines. At every turn, he is ticking off more records and this week, at Spain’s oldest tennis club, the prestigious Real Club de Tenis Barcelona-1899, is no exception. Nadal already owns a replica trophy in recognition of his five consecutive wins in Barcelona—2005 to 2009. Now, at the event which began life as the... 

Rafa Nadal to Vic Seixas: Records Young and Old Set Barcelona Alight

Rafael Nadal, Spaniard extraordinaire, cannot stay out of the tennis headlines. At every turn, he is ticking off more records and this week, at Spain’s oldest tennis club, the prestigious Real Club de Tenis Barcelona-1899, is no exception. Nadal already owns a replica trophy in recognition of his five consecutive wins in Barcelona—2005 to 2009. Now, at the event which began life as the... 

Rafael Nadal’s Monte Carlo: The Birth of a Tennis Legend

It was one of those moments of good fortune, when the laptop was almost closed, the Skybox almost put to sleep, the day turned over to something more useful. It was, after all, a mere filler in the broadcasting schedule at the end of a decent afternoon’s tennis from Monte Carlo. But it became instead a moment of hesitation, of curious interest, of captured attention. And it revealed the moment... 

Monte Carlo’s Field of Gold Promises a 4th Nadal and Federer Final

A new color, and with it a new mood, is spreading across the tennis calendar. The vivid indigo and acid brights of the North American Masters are giving way to the burnished orange and subtle turquoise of the Mediterranean. Between now and the end of May, the men’s tour will settle into the welcome embrace of the terracotta dust that will become their home for eight unbroken weeks, for April... 

ATP Power Rankings: Unbeaten Novak Djokovic Poised To Target No. 1 Ranking

The first three months of the tennis season pose some of the players’ biggest challenges. With barely a fortnight to get their hard-court games into fine working order, the first Major of the year is upon them. Yet the Australian Open is just the beginning; ahead lie two months of hard-court rigor, all geared towards a second distant climax at the end of March. Along the way are choices between... 

Miami Masters: Scene Set for Roger Federer-Rafael Nadal Showdown

The talk in Indian Wells, from start to finish, was of Novak Djokovic. He had continued his 2011 unbeaten run all the way to the title, dropping precious few games on the way, and he took the No. 2 ranking in the process. He notched up his third victory over Roger Federer on the trot and won his third tournament on the bounce. And he even beat Rafael Nadal for the first time in a final. And the talk... 

Miami Tennis Masters: Draw Bursts Open for Another Novak Djokovic Surge

The Sony Ericsson Open, the second of the two giant North American Masters, is a conclusive full stop between tennis’s first hard court season and the arrival of two unbroken months of clay. And while the opening week of April may see a handful of players make their transition to the red stuff in Casablanca or Houston—the only ATP event in the U.S. on clay—the spotlight turns unwaveringly... 

Indian Wells: First ATP Masters Draws Tennis Elite—Nadal, Federer, Djokovic

The jewels in tennis’s ATP calendar, its nine Masters events, are here at last. And in celebration, March is bursting at the seams with two of them: sun-drenched Indian Wells and Miami. These are the last hard court events before spring ushers in the clay, and they will not appear again until the tour heads back to North America in late July. Little wonder, then, that the United States’... 

Juan Martin Del Potro’s First Step on the Comeback Trail

A little more than a year ago, a certain young Argentine seemed to have the tennis world at his feet. Juan Martin Del Potro was already a record-breaker while he was still a teenager, stringing together the second-longest winning streak by a teenager—23 matches—in the Open era. Only Rafael Nadal had done better. He already had a Major to his name: the U.S. Open, won while he was only 20. By... 

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