In 2005 the venue for the Tennis Masters Cup Final—the ATP’s year-end championship—moved to Shanghai from Houston. Awarding China the honor of hosting the event was a coup—a great step forward in ...

MELBOURNE, AustraliaMELBOURNE, Australia — Roger Federer has avenged his 2005 semifinal defeat to Marat Safin with a 6-3, 6-2, 7-6 (5) win over the Russian in the third round at the Australian Open.

Roger Federer waged war with David Nalbandian throughout his junior and professional tennis career. The Argentine prided himself on being the first to have “Federer’s number.” These were days before ...

IT’S NOT going to get boring. Roger Federer can win eight of the next 10 Slam finals, reach the semifinals of all the rest, and if the answers to “Who?” and “When?” become inevitable at every ...

Wimbledon, Roland Garros, Rome, Melbourne: These are the historic tennis locations we usually associate with matches between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. But their rivalry started in Miami, 20 ...

SEVEN ROUNDS AND 14 days into his 20th U. S. Open, Andre Agassi finally hit his wall. It happened as dusk fell over the National Tennis Center, and over the skyline that changed forever four years ago ...

SHANGHAI, China -- The 2005 Shanghai Masters Cup was a tournament initially marred by withdrawals but it ended with one of the most dramatic wins in Masters Cup -- now renamed the World Tour Finals -- ...

The question was posed to the thoroughly beaten Ivo Minar: “Can anyone beat Roger Federer at the U.S. Open?” “I don’t know,” the Czech Republic prospect said. “I’m not God.” Even God may not possess ...

Earlier this year, Carlos Alcaraz's peers nicknamed him "Fed05" as a nod to Roger Federer's immaculate 2005 season, which saw the Swiss go 81-4 to maintain the second-greatest winning percentage (95.3 ...