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By Mike McIntyre The 2010 ATP tennis season is set to begin at three locations across the globe this week and plenty of big-name players are getting ready to fine-tune their games as the first slam of the year approaches....  

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal today played a unique game of tennis on a magic carpet in the Souq Waqif in Doha. The two best tennis players in the world, who have arrived in Doha for one of the first three events of the year, ...  

2009 was an especially momentous year on the ATP Tour. Test your recall of the year's highlights.2009 Tennis ATP Tour Year in Review Quiz originally appeared on About.com Tennis on Friday, January 1st, 2010 at 15:50:59.Permalink | Comment | Email this  

Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina squeaked into the semifinals of the ATP World Tour Finals by beating Roger Federer of Switzerland 6-2, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3 Thursday — the slimmest possible margin to advance and knock Britain's Andy Murray out of the tournament in London.  

Moving the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals to London in 2009 was a brilliant stroke.  The tournament now lives in the moment, relevant and scintillating.  What could be more fitting than to crown the world’s best in the land of tennis where Wimbledon stands as a shrine and anointing a home grown champion remains a national obsession. Shanghai, on the other hand, seemed strangely remote and foreign because of the time difference and the sparse...  

Filed under: ATP, ATP Rankings Over the next two weeks, FanHouse will be covering the top sports stories of the decade. In this installment, Greg Couch looks back at Roger Federer's decade of dominance. He was the greatest athlete no one paid attention to, the victim of tennis' disappearing popularity, Americans' reluctance to root for non-Americans and his own unsellable quiet persona. That's what Roger Federer was in the early years of his...  

Andy Roddick has been forced out of the upcoming year-end London ATP Finals event according to the London Times. ADHEREL “I am really disappointed to miss the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals,” Roddick said. “I love playing in London and I’ve heard so many good things about the venue. However, I have not fully recovered from [...]  

The start of a new decade brings with it the excitement of a new tennis season. The ATP World Tour will be out in full force this week hosting three events in Qatar, Brisbane and Chennai, respectively. Five top 10 players are in action throughout the ...  

LONDON — Rafael Nadal lost to Robin Soderling for the second straight time, falling 6-4, 6-4 Monday in their opening round-robin match at the ATP World Tour Finals. Soderling, who handed the Spaniard his first ever loss on clay at the French Open...  

Austrian Open dropped from ATP tour calendar VIENNA (AP)—The Austrian Open—a 65 year old clay court tournament—has been dropped from the ATP World Tour calendar after a legal dispute with local authorities over the tennis stadium in Kitzbuehel. The ATP  

LONDON — All the involuntary rest because of injuries gives Rafael Nadal a good feeling heading into the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals. When most players are nursing weary bodies after a long season, Nadal says things couldn’t be better....  

The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals served up their first shock when Rafa Nadal lost in straight sets to Robin Soderling. The world number two never recovered from a poor start and Soderling - who only qualified when Andy Roddick...  

With his mind already set on 2010 with training resuming at home on the island of Mallorca, Rafael Nadal has voiced a thought which tennis officials might be wise to consider - an optional portion of the long ATP season.  

Times OnlineRoger Federer Interview - ATP Finals London, Nov 22Tennis-X.comROGER FEDERER: Nice. I thought the crowds were great. Lighting is unique. You know, it's not something we -- sort of that we don't -- we do see the crowd, ...Shaky Start for Federer in LondonNew York TimesAndy Murray set for first London tilt at Roger Federer in ATP World Tour FinalsTelegraph.co.ukFederer has a score to settle when he meets Murray in LondonMonsters and...  

In the case of the latter, this has definitely already begun with the arrival of tennis' ATP World ... have certainly reacted positively to the tournament that saw Nikolay Davydenko become the first Russian to win the ATP World Tour Finals when he ...