Roger Federer Is Getting Loose Roger Federer is not going to leave a stack of soulless husks in his wake at Wimbledon the way Rafael Nadal did at the French Open. Nadal left Paris with a body count; Federer was sure to be a little different in London. He has always revealed more f Read more ... lashes of mushy mortality—netting backhands, doubl...

And Now, Back To Your Regularly Scheduled Federer-Nadal Show Rewind the tape all the way back to—sheesh—April 2, the date of Roger Federer’s last professional tennis match, a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Rafael Nadal to win the Miami Open. Afterwards he reportedly told his rival that he, Nadal, would “destroy Read more ... ” the clay court season, and Rafa delivered, piling up a 2...

Roger Federer Pulls Out Of The French Open, And Rafael Nadal's Practically A Lock To Win It

Roger Federer Can't Be Stopped By Rafael Nadal, Or Anyone Else Two famous rivals named Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal both got hurt, and both entered rehab cocoons for most of 2016, biding their time until this January. One emerged a radiant butterfly, posting a 19-5 record on the season, playing in two champion Read more ... ship matches—a lovely comeback by any metric. But ...

Federer triumphs over Nadal in straight sets in Miami Open MIKE DICKSON: Roger Federer continues to be the sporting phenomenon of 2017 to date, sweeping all before him again as he dismissed Rafael Nadal to win the Miami Open title.

Science! Shows That Roger Federer's Backhand In Fact Defeated Rafael Nadal Yesterday we argued that Federer’s unusually strong backhand anchored his Australian Open win over Rafael Nadal, and today we found a startling statistical basis for that claim. It comes courtesy of the always helpful Jeff Sackmann at TennisAbstrac Read more ... t. Relative to other sports, tennis remains fairly d...

Why Federer-Nadal was just what we needed

Nadal vs Federer: Dream final becomes reality in Australia MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — As Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal won match after match at the Australian Open, making their unlikely way through opposite sides of the draw, tennis fa

Roger Federer And Rafael Nadal Are Not In The Top Four For The First Time Since 2003 Scroll through the ranking histories of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, skim over the mind-numbing string of No. 1's during Federer’s untouchable 2004-2008 run, and you might notice that you need to dig back to June 2003 to find a moment when neith Read more ... er Fed nor Rafa was among the top four players in th...

Nadal back in Paris, no title to defend, no Federer to face PARIS (AP) — Through the years, Rafael Nadal grew accustomed to a couple of givens at the French Open: He would arrive as the defending champion, and Roger Federer would be somewhere in the draw, often awaiting a showdown…