Category Archives: ATP Tour
Five Great Years
Tommy Haas, No.21 As I write, Tommy Haas is losing amiably to Roger Federer at an exhibition in Sao Paulo, although he earlier proved beyond question that he is the Swiss player’s superior as a dancer. He also demonstrated back … Continue reading
The Same New Balls
Now that Bernard Tomic has attained twenty years of age – a milestone that was as restrained in its celebration as it was devoid of homoeroticism – there are once again no teenagers ranked within the ATP’s top one hundred, … Continue reading
There Has Been Only One
Last year there were ten players (all men) who claimed their maiden titles on the ATP Tour, although history remains coy about what indignities they visited upon them after that. This year, in an outcome doubtless endorsed by immortal Scotsmen … Continue reading
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The Trimmings of Objectivity
It didn’t take long for my innocent intention to write about the best tennis matches of 2012 to be revealed as dewy-eyed naivety. It was supposed to be simple, but rapidly came to feel reductive, if not intrinsically dishonest. The more … Continue reading
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Masters Retrospective (Part Two)
This is the second part of my look back at this year’s Masters 1000 events. It’s all there in the title. The first part, to which I whimsically appended the term Part One, can be found here. Internazionali BNL d’Italia, … Continue reading
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Masters Retrospective (Part One)
The moment came just after Shanghai. With eight of the season’s allotted nine Masters 1000 events completed, it looked for all the world as though the ATP’s premier tournaments would be claimed exclusively by the sport’s top four players, an … Continue reading
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How The Life Goes On
It is several weeks shy of one year since I was last in this situation, mind murmuring in torpid contemplation of the tennis season just past. The fifty intervening weeks have wrought change on my life, such that I’m now … Continue reading
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A Modern Kind Of Fairy Tale
World Tour Finals, Final (2) Djokovic d. (1) Federer, 7/6 7/5 Novak Djokovic has ended the frivolous debate over who should be considered the ATP’s Player of the Year by defeating Roger Federer in the final of the World Tour … Continue reading
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Knowing A Good Thing When You See It
World Tour Finals, Semifinal (1) Federer d. (3) Murray, 7/6 6/2 Roger Federer tonight defeated Andy Murray to move through to the deciding match of the World Tour Finals. Earlier today Novak Djokovic qualified for the final by beating Juan … Continue reading
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Ambling Home
World Tour Finals, Day Six (6) del Potro d. (1) Federer, 7/6 4/6 6/3 (4) Ferrer d. (8) Tipsarevic, 4/6 6/3 6/1 The round robin phase of the 2012 World Tour Finals is now complete, with the upshots being that … Continue reading
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