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Nearly a whole year after winning the ATP Cup in Australia right at the start of the season, Canada’s men ended the season with a unique team tennis double by winning the Davis Cup for the first time ever. In so doing, Felix Auger-Aliassime, Denis Shapovalov and their doubles specialist Vasek Pospisil, who won key […] READ MORE
Novak Djokovic ultimately won the 2022 ATP Finals with such ease, beating Casper Ruud in the final to ensure that he won every match he played and thus won nearly $5 million in prize money (the biggest ever pay-out in tennis history), that it was hard to believe he had not won the tournament for […] READ MORE
Shakespeare may have thought that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”, but a World Cup by any other name simply doesn’t generate as much interest. Consequently, on a sporting weekend in Britain in which there were at least three other World Cups taking place (in rugby union, rugby league and cricket), […] READ MORE
Now that Roger Federer has finally retired from men’s tennis and the era of The Big Three (Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic) is officially over, what’s next for men’s tennis? Well, after an extraordinary weekend of indoor tennis in Vienna and Basel that has set the scene perfectly for the final Masters event of […] READ MORE
If it is not yet a feast for Felix Auger-Aliassime, then at least his trophy famine is well and truly over, after he won in Antwerp this weekend just a week after triumphing in Florence. Having never won an ATP Tournament before this year, the young Canadian has now won two in succession and three […] READ MORE
In the fourth and final part of our series examining the extraordinary three-way “Trivalry” between Federer, Nadal and Djokovic, which has ended with Federer’s retirement, Martin Keady, our resident tennis historian, examines the specific rivalry between Nadal and Djokovic. The rivalry between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic is, of course, the one rivalry within the […] READ MORE
In the third of his four-part series examining the extraordinary three-way “Trivalry” between Federer, Nadal and Djokovic, which has ended with Federer’s retirement, Martin Keady, our resident tennis historian, looks back at the specific rivalry between Federer and Djokovic. Some might argue that the Federer-Djokovic rivalry was the least compelling of the three distinct rivalries […] READ MORE
In the second of his four-part series examining the extraordinary three-way “Trivalry” between Federer, Nadal and Djokovic, Martin Keady, our resident tennis historian, examines the specific rivalry between Federer and Nadal. Before there was “The Trivalry” between Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, which has finally ended with Federer’s recent retirement, there was the […] READ MORE
In a new four-part series, Martin Keady, our resident tennis historian, considers the end of the great “Trivalry” between Federer, Nadal and Djokovic, which has come with Federer’s retirement, and argues that it was the greatest rivalry ever in any sport. In all the understandable commemoration and celebration of the end of Roger Federer’s […] READ MORE
In the end, the only tie that Great Britain’s Davis Cup team could win in Glasgow was the dead rubber against Kazakhstan – and they only just managed that. Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski, the doubles pairing that arguably should have played in all three of Great Britain’s ties, eventually won a match of three […] READ MORE
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