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Roger Federer may have ended his season with only one title, his lowest mark since 2001, but he was encouraged how he finished off his 2013 campaign. The Swiss experienced back trouble for much of the spring and summer but over the past three weeks was able to contest Basel, Paris/Bercy and London.
Some things simply belong together. Gin and tonic, fish with white wine, red wine paired with red meat, burgers and fries. Of course, these dualistic associations are not exclusive to the culinary sphere - such associations, often unknowingly, are present even in everyday language.
Juan Del Potro swallowed a tight semi-final loss to Roger Federer to exit the World Tour Finals with the Argentine determined to give even more of a challenge to his rivals in 2014.
Roger Federer will let the mental and physical aches from his 7-5, 6-3 World Tour Finals semi-finals loss to Rafael Nadal heal while he plots strategy for a return to full form next season.
This match wasn't exactly meaningless -- Richard Gasquet can use the points as he tries to stay Top Ten next year, and for Novak Djokovic, he needs everything he can get if he is to threaten Rafael Nadal's top ranking in the first part of 2014.
Stanislas Wawrinka admitted after the match that he'd been nervous. It certainly showed in the first set and beginning of the second. "I had to fight to keep the ball in," he said of his many mistakes.
Roger Federer's suggestion that anti-doping tests are on the decline was heartily disputed to German agency dpa by the ITF's drug-testing boss Stuart Miller, who said the Swiss has been the subject of numerous controls.
Roger Federer isn’t about to hop on the ‘Viktor Troicki is unfortunate’ bandwagon and instead of sympathizing with the Serb for being banned from tennis for a year after a misunderstanding over the taking of a drugs test, maintains rules are there for a reason and tennis needs to be even more vigilant on anti-doping matters.
The debate over whether Victor Troicki received a raw deal from the ITF and Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) when he was suspended for 12 months for failing to take a blood test took a new turn on Thursday when ATP Players’ Council chief Roger Federer weighed in more on the side of anti-doping authorities.
This was the day's first singles match, and it wasn't as routine as the score -- both players seemed nervous (both had more errors than winners), and it took Roger Federer half a dozen match points to finish.
Rafael Nadal has returned to the year-end No. 1 three years after last holding it as the Spaniard capped a miracle comeback season after winning a second group match at the World Tour Finals. And Nadal could not be more thrilled.
Rafael Nadal has clinched the year-end No. 1 Emirates ATP Ranking for a third time after recording his second match win in Group B against Stanislas Wawrinka at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals on Wednesday afternoon.
Juan Martin Del Potro calls his forehand his best shot and told El Pais that a mathematician friend of his coach did a study of it and claims it's the most powerful one on tour. . .
Toni Nadal, uncle to Rafael who can cement the year ending world no.1 ranking today if he beats Stanislas Wawrinka at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London, maintains the success so far of this year in coming back from a seven months absence with knee problems to win ten titles is already his nephew’s most incredible achievement of all.
Year-End Finals coverage next week to feature Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and others
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