How could anyone ever suggest Stan Wawrinka is a conformist when he dared to wear patterned ‘country club’ shorts, which clashed with the rest of his outfit, for one Grand Slam final, and then opted for a uniform shade of fuscia, right down to his watch strap, for another? Wawrinka is most certainly not as other men or, more precisely, is not of the same sort of character as the other four players to have dominated tennis during what is widely regarded to have been a golden era for the ATP World Tour. Of course, no one seriously believes that Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray all have the same, or even strikingly similar, characters (this isn’t...
“I still feel that my best years are ahead,” said Andy Murray this summer, during a sponsor appearance at the Thruxton race track in Hampshire. History and precedent were against him, because only one man in the modern era – Andre Agassi – has won multiple Grand Slam titles after his 30th birthday. Murray turned 29 in May. Yet from that moment in early June when he made his claim, standing alongside the WWII aircraft hangars at the side of the track, Murray produced the most dominant sequence of his career. The statistics were extraordinary. Going into next week’s Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, he has lost just three matches since Roland Garros. In a twist that no one would...
Two years on from gritting his teeth through compulsory military training in Austria, Dominic Thiem is now among the elite eight, who are set to compete on the illuminated blue court, at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. “In 2014, it was difficult for me to have a decent off-season, but last year I watched it and thought the [Barclays ATP World Tour] Finals was so difficult to amass so many [Emirates ATP Rankings] points, to compile so many good results,” Thiem told ATPWorldTour.com. “So to have qualified is a big dream.” Watch: The Story Of Thiem The youngest player in the field at The O2 in London is also the first Austrian to compete at the year-end championships since...
Roger Federer, Juan Martin del Potro and Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan have been honoured in the 2016 ATP World Tour Awards presented by Moët & Chandon. While the ATP World Tour No. 1 presented by Emirates award is still to be decided in singles between Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic and in doubles between Pierre-Hugues Herbert/Nicolas Mahut and Jamie Murray/Bruno Soares, the other award winners have been announced today. Federer has been selected by fellow players as winner of the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award for a 12th time and by fans as the ATPWorldTour.com Fans’ Favourite presented by Moët & Chandon for a 14th straight year. Since 2003, Federer has won a record total of 33 ATP World Tour...
