TweetRoger Federer has had many a fine run at Roland Garros and one truly great one, that 2009 title win. Those fine runs- to the semis in 2005 and 2012, and the finals in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2011, have all, bar one (2012, lost to Djokovic), ended at the hands of Rafa Nadal. That pattern is likely […]
TweetHistory does and does not repeat itself depending on your history and how you play on the day. For Roger Federer at the age of 37, it’s harder to predict how those days are going to unfold, but when he has his day, the history you get is the kind of glittering, legendary, all conquering […]
TweetBy beating Robin Haase in the quarter-finals of the Rotterdam Open, Roger Federer, at the age of 36, became the oldest male player to be ranked No.1 in the world. The Tennis Review reviews how the Swiss got back to the pinnacle of the sport and wonders how long he could end up staying there. Roger […]
TweetRoger Federer (2) defeated Marin Cilic (6) 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 3-6, 6-1. Roger Federer’s five set win over Marin Cilic in the 2018 Australian Open men’s singles final on the Rod Laver Arena played under the admiring eyes of the legend himself was the Swiss’ record tying 6th AO title, his record 20th slam, […]
TweetSecond seed and defending champion Roger Federer will take on sixth seed and first time Melbourne finalist Marin Cilic to win the 2018 Men’s Australian Open trophy. The Tennis Review previews the action and predicts the winner. Paths to the final Federer came into the Australian Open as the favorite and he has lived up to […]
TweetAfter having spent four and a half years looking for slam number 18 and finally finding it in Melbourne last season, Roger Federer is, after just a year, looking on course for a date with number 20. We have seen more of Federer than we have seen of a lot of the potential big name […]
TweetRafa Nadal’s Beijing win and run to the Shanghai final looks, on paper, like it might have helped seal him the year end No.1 ranking- the Spaniard has 10,465 points to second ranked Roger Federer’s 8,505- but, those numbers might not add up, to some, to equal who was the best player in 2017, the […]
TweetIf seeing is believing, tennis fans around the world will tell you that on Sunday July 16th 2017 in the Gentlemen’s singles final on Wimbledon’s Center Court they saw the G.O.A.T defeating seventh seed Marin Cilic 6-3, 6-1, 6-4. Fans who were not around to see the victory, those not yet born, will read about it in […]
TweetRoger Federer (3) and Marin Cilic (7) will compete for the 2017 Wimbledon Men’s singles title, a final both men have been on the road towards for some time, at the end of which one is looking to add some finishing touches to the most glittering of empires, the other to decorate further an already […]
Tweet If Roger Federer is to win a historic eighth Wimbledon trophy this season, it would be only poetic for him to defeat Grigor Dimitrov along the way. The 13th seeded Bulgarian was touted by the tennis bards as the heir to the Federer throne all the way back in 2008 when he won the Wimbledon […]
