Archive: November 2017
How fast is Roger Federer? Faster than Jimmy John's. And fast enough to clinch a spot in the semis of the Nitto ATP World Tour Finals after just three days of competition.
Scaling the summit of the sport left Roger Federer with the desire to go downhill fast in his younger years. Years ago when Federer wasn’t refining his all-court artistry on the practice court, he was indulging his all-sport appetite with downhill skiing, soccer and squash often on the menu.
Roger Federer supports keeping a lid on the World Tour Finals. Tonight, Federer raised the roof on the O2 Arena. Before a wildly enthusiastic crowd, Federer flew threw six straight games transforming a tight test into a tutorial in closing power.
You never know who you'll meet on a London street at 4 a.m. A sleepy Jack Sock and his girlfriend, Michala Burns, ran into Rafael Nadal, Dominic Thiem and their respective teams out on the street after a 4 a.m. fire alarm forced them to evacuate their second-floor hotel rooms early this morning.
Grigor Dimitrov and David Goffin will be battling for Group A supremacy at the Nitto ATP World Tour Finals when they face each other for the fifth time in their careers at the main-tour level on Wednesday afternoon.
There will be a Spaniard on the opposite side of the net from Dominic Thiem on Wednesday night in London. It just won’t be Rafael Nadal.
Rafael Nadal's Nitto ATP World Tour Finals campaign is over. It wasn't a good one. Nadal's 2017 season is also over. It, however, was a great one.
Tennis amplified is the World Tour Finals tag line. Tonight, it was tennis electrified—for two sets—then came the end of Rafael Nadal's season.
Close calls and missed match points have haunted Grigor Dimitrov at times this season. The Bulgarian pushed Rafael Nadal to the very brink in the Australian Open semifinals before bowing in a pulsating four hour, 56-minute clash.
Grigor Dimitrov stared at the baseline like a man contemplating how to balance on a tight rope. Straddling aggression and apprehension, Dimitrov edged Dominic Thiem, 6-3, 5-7, 7-5, in a fierce and fitful World Tour Finals fight that featured three service breaks in the last six games.
A battle of the ages brings opportunity for advancement when the oldest man in the field faces the youngest at the World Tour Finals. Six-time champion Roger Federer will play 20-year-old Alexander Zverev in the latest episode of their growing rivalry on Tuesday night.
Marin Cilic and Jack Sock will be faced with borderline must-win situations when they go head-to-head during round-robin competition at the Nitto ATP World Tour Finals on Tuesday afternoon.
Roger Federer and Alexander Zverev will be facing each other for the fifth time in their careers when they each try to remain undefeated in round-robin Group B at the Nitto ATP World Tour Finals on Tuesday night.
Jack Sock's debut match at the Nitto ATP World Tour Finals was not successful. Alexander Zverev's, on the other hand, was a different story.
Playing catch-up for much of the final set, Alexander Zverev deployed a final forward charge to find the finish line. Rallying from 1-3 down in the decider, Zverev reeled off five of the final six games edging Marin Cilic, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, in his ATP World Tour Finals debut.
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