Tennis Masters Cup Shanghai

Every year throws up a lot of fuss. I don't know about other sports, but in tennis it does. If it doesn't, that year hasn't done well and it better be ashamed of itself. The first fuss was over Roger Federer not beating Rafael Nadal at the Australian Open. He played a great match and Nadal was supposed to be tired and all after playing for some five hours a couple of days back. Federer simply did not play a good last set. People seemed to...  

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will celebrate the New Year on court in Abu Dhabi as both make returns at the high-profile exhibition where they appeared in the inaugural edition a year ago, the Capitala World Tennis Championship.  

Roger Federer has reclaimed his spot at the top of the tennis world, securing the year-end No. 1 ranking for the fifth time in his career. The record 15-time Grand Slam champion is now closing in on Pete Sampras' all-time mark of six. "It's one of the... Tennis - Pete Sampras - Roger Federer - Grand Slam - Sports  

London, Nov 28(ANI): Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal has admitted that he is completely worn out after his recent injuries. Adding to the 23-year-old’s misery, the most dominant player in the world last year crashed 7-6 6-3 to Novak Djokovic, which ended his World Tour Finals campaign with a third successive defeat. “Sometimes your battery [...]  

World number two Rafael Nadal lost 6-1 7-6 to Russian Nikolay Davydenko on Wednesday. The loss forces him out of the ATP World Tour Finals even if he wins against Novak Djokovic in his final round-robin match on Friday.  

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Roger Federer waged war with David Nalbandian throughout his junior and professional tennis career.  The Argentine prided himself on being the first to have “Federer’s number.”  These were days before Rafael Nadal supplanted the underachieving Nalbandian as Federer’s chief antagonizer—preying on the mind of the Swiss Maestro. The great Nalbandian not only possessed a keen tennis mind, but was renowned as one of the cleanest ball strikers in...  

Defending champion Novak Djokovic has a semi-final place in the ATP World Tour Finals within his sights after he defeated Rafael Nadal on Friday. The Spaniard leaves the competition without a single win.  

World top-seed Roger Federer was defeated by France's Julien Benneteau (picture) in the Paris Masters' second round Wednesday, while former number one Rafael Nadal said he felt "lucky" to have edged out Nicolas Almagro.  

Swede Robin Soderling claimed his second major upset at the ATP World Tour Finals on Wednesday when he ousted world number three Novak Djokovic 7-6 6-1. Soderling knocked out Rafael Nadal in his opening match.  

...Paribas Masters -- the last 1000-series tournament of the year and the prelude to the year-end Tennis Masters Cup. The reaction was a perfect case in point illustrating the marriage of two frequently voiced...  

The World Tour Finals, the ATP Tour's year-end championships, which has now been completed following Nikolay Davydenko's singles victory, has re-established itself as the ATP's premium tournament following its premiere in its new home of London's O2 Arena.  The Shanghai experiment (the Tennis Masters Cup—the Finals' previous name—was played there for the past four years) now looks like a woefully unsuccessful misadventure, a notion underlined...  

Tennis:Rafael Nadal silenced a partisan crowd by knocking out local favourite and defending champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-5 7-5 with an impressive performance to advance to the semi-finals of the Paris Masters.  

The In-form third seed Novak Djokovic reached the ATP Paris Tennis Masters final after eliminating second seed Rafael Nadal with a comprehensive 6-2 6-3 victory at the Bercy arena. Djokovic, ...  

...the next-biggest title after a Grand Slam, ergo … But there's loads more evidence that Tennis Masters Cup will wind up in either Murray or Djokovic's hands. Let's take the facts...