Archive: wimbledon
British tennis hero Andy Murray is copping home flack for what observers feel is a part-angry, part-hangdog attitude during tense moments on court.
Novak Djokovic had a large contingent of fans in attendance during his four set loss to Rafael Nadal in the US Open final, but the majority of the crowd belonged to the Spaniard, who keeps growing in popularity.
The Scot has become the third player to qualify for the season finale, to be held at The O2 in London from November 4-11. Murray, who reached the quarter-finals at the US Open, secured his place at the season finale for the sixth straight year.
Marion Bartoli, the reigning Wimbledon champion who announced her retirement from competitive tennis just 40 days after beating Sabine Lisicki to win her first major title, will return to the grass of London SW19 to play again this month.
By winning her 17th Grand Slam title at the US Open on Sunday, the spectacular Serena Williams is now just one major crown behind Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova for fourth place on the all time list.
The on-again, off-again retirement of Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli has taken another turn
The way Andy Murray figures it, the less said the better about another year of quirky US Open scheduling. With his loss in the quarter-finals to Swiss Stan Wawrinka, the defending champion thought it best just to say his quick goodbyes and be done with the event for this season.
Bob and Mike Bryan have achieved just about everything a doubles team can in tennis but the Californian twins who statistically stand as the best ever must still wonder what it is like to win this sport’s Holy Grail – the Grand Slam.
It was a bad day at the US Open for the defending champions of the ATP. One right after the other, both the men's singles and doubles 2012 champions found themselves out of contention to once again hoist the winner's trophy.
Andy Murray's profile as measured by marketing gurus is on the up in the wake of his Wimbledon title.
Richard Gasquet has long been revered as aesthetically one of the finest tennis players of his generation. But the Frenchman’s durability to withstand big match pressure in Grand Slam events was open to doubt after repeatedly losing the big matches.
Last month's sudden "retirement" scenario for Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli may well be developing cracks after L'Equipe reported that the French player may have already decided to go ahead and play in January's Hopman Cup, the eight-nation teams exhibition in Perth, Western Australia.
After a summer return to doubles six years after her second retirement, Martina Hingis is out of the US Open in women's and mixed but is still looking forward to more matches - once she takes a rest.
Andy Murray cannot help but contrast the calm ambience of Wimbledon to the chaos and noise of the US Open.
Self-criticism has never been one of Roger Federer’s traits. Then again, for the majority of his illustrious career, it never needed to be but after a disappointing year in the Grand Slam tournaments crashed to a sad end with a US Open straight sets exit to Tommy Robredo, the Swiss did not hold back.
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