Today’s Men’s News (12/9)

Written by: Staff on 9th December 2012

Today's Men's News (12/9)

epa03503354 Swiss tennis player Roger Federer returns a ball to German Tommy Haas during Gillete Federer Tour exhibition championship at the Ibirapuera gym in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 09 December 2012. EPA/Sebastião Moreira |

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All right, we’ll say it up front: Any news at this time about a player’s 2013 schedule is probably meaningless. Still, it can be pretty interesting. Roger Federer has posted his anticipated schedule for next year — and it doesn’t include Miami! He is listed as playing Indian Wells — and then nothing until Madrid and Rome. It is the only required event he is shown as missing. (For optional events, he has scheduled Rotterdam, Dubai, and Halle. Nothing else.)

The interesting point, it seems to us, is that he chose Indian Wells over Miami. The most likely reason is that Federer has to defend the title at Indian Wells — but if he hadn’t decided, no doubt Larry Ellison would have tried to persuade him….