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Roger Federer’s game is without question at an historic level, but the talk of him claiming the greatest of all time based on his French Open win is premature.  To be the one player better than all the others in tennis history, you have to hold a true Grand Slam – all four majors in one year, the [...]

Roger Federer, pictured here after the Australian Open final, is clearly not, but Rafael Nadal, talking with the last man to complete a Grand Slam, Rod Laver, is poised to win all four majors this year.  Nadal has already won in Melbourne, is a heavy favorite to win the French, proved last year that he can win [...]

Arnaud Clement, loser to Rainer Schuettler 8-6 in the fifth set of a quarterfinal match Thursday, missed by sixteen minutes adding his name to the history books for the longest match ever played at Wimbledon in the Open Era. The match lasted five hours, 12 minutes; according to Radio Wimbledon, the longest match is [...]

Of the eight American men in the top 100 of the ATP rankings released Monday, four rose, including two significantly, three dropped only slightly, and one, Andy Roddick, held his ground.
Robby Ginepri and Wayne Odesnik were the big movers. Of the highest ranked Americans, Roddick, held onto his number six spot, while James Blake moved [...]

Rafael Nadal’s run in Paris without losing a set was the first time a French Open champion has won the tournament without losing a set since the great Bjorn Borg. With four titles at Roland Garros under his belt, can he win on the lawns of London? He has reached the finals of Wimbledon the [...]

Federer put up a more respectable fight in the second set, but now that he’s down two-sets-to-none, his chances of winning in Paris again are almost nil.  UPDATE–In fact, Federer didn’t win another game, losing 6-1, 6-3, 6-0.

Federer put up a more respectable fight in the second set, but now that he’s down two-sets-to-none, his chances of winning in Paris again are almost nil.  UPDATE–In fact, Federer didn’t win another game, losing 6-1, 6-3, 6-0.

Ion Tiriac, the former player, coach and agent who later became the richest Romanian and his country’s first billionaire, has a prime front-row seat at today’s match.  You can’t miss his famous burly mustache. Tiriac wants to add a fifth grand slam to the tour to be played in Madrid, it was reported last fall.

Bjorn [...]

When Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal step onto the red clay of Court Phillippe Chatrier on Sunday, Federer’s claim to be the greatest of all time—the GOAT, as Peter Bodo calls it—hangs in the balance. Because while this debate is one that will never have a definitive answer, I believe a player can only claim [...]

NBC carried two hours and 45 minutes of the Nadal’s win over Djokovic via tape delay on Friday–the problem is, the match lasted two hours and 49 minutes, but NBC cut out a large portion of the second set to pack in more advertisements.  In some markets, fans didn’t even get to see Nadal at [...]