
The warning signs have been there for the last few months and the way Roger Federer lost to Filippo Volandri in Rome yesterday confirms the Swiss is in his first slump as a No. 1.

So Pete Sampras can win on clay after all! Okay, it was a little Boston senior event and he beat a bunch of guys – John McEnroe, Todd Martin, Tim Mayotte, Petr Korda – who don’t exactly strike fear into people on the dirt. But give the guy some credit, a year after looking real […]

Television drives professional sports, so you have to wonder, how high could tennis’ popularity rise if the powers that be could get tennis’ biggest events on TV? And we’re not talking about Wimbledon here.
This week Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal played an exhibition on a court that was half clay, half grass. Rafa won. Not […]

Maybe it’s me but it’s starting to feel like no one is ever going to beat Rafael Nadal on clay, ever again. Igor Andreev, you are soon to become a permanent answer to the trivia question of the last player to do it.
