As most occasions have been this year for Roger Federer, this birthday must also feel a little sweeter. The Swiss great turns 36 today, 8 August 2017, and some say his game has never been better. He enters the Coupe Rogers in Montreal with a tour-leading 31-2 record and has won five tour-level titles this season, including two Grand Slam crowns – Australian Open and Wimbledon – and two ATP World Tour Masters 1000 titles – BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells and the Miami Open presented by Itau. Federer also captured the Gerry Weber Open in Halle. [ALSO LIKE] His year could get even better as well. During the North American hard-court swing, Federer will be battling for No....
Little by little, Rajeev Ram could feel the end coming. Last year the 33 year old played both singles and doubles at tournaments, but in practices, he couldn't push himself as much as he would have liked. Little injuries popped up here and there, and he had so much success in doubles with Raven Klaasen, including a run to the 2016 Nitto ATP Finals title match, that Ram started playing singles less and less. “I had a great year last year in singles even and in doubles. But I could just feel the wear and tear starting to take its toll,” said Ram, who reached the Delray Beach Open singles final and won two doubles titles last year. Ram wants...
The historic achievements keep coming for Roger Federer, even in areas that might not immediately come to mind when you think about the all-time great. During his first-round match on Tuesday at The Championships, Federer surpassed the 10,000-ace mark against Ukraine's Alexandr Dolgopolov, joining Goran Ivanisevic and Ivo Karlovic as the only three men who have hit more than 10,000 aces since 1991, when the ATP World Tour began tracking the statistic. [ALSO LIKE] The milestone moment came at 4-3, 30/30, as Federer caught Dolgopolov leaning left and went out wide for a sliding ace. “It's surreal,” Federer told ESPN. “It puts me up there with the likes of Ivanisevic and Karlovic, to whom I look up to and think...
Roger Federer added another milestone to his historic career on Tuesday, celebrating his 1,100th match win to start his Gerry Weber Open campaign in Halle. The eight-time champion breezed past lucky loser Yuichi Sugita of Japan 6-3, 6-1 in 52 minutes to move into the second round at the ATP World Tour 500 event. “It [the milestone] was mentioned in Stuttgart but I had forgotten about it. I appreciate these numbers way more today than ever before. I think I can embrace them more. It’s a big number and I’m very happy to have a chance to hopefully add some more wins to that number,” Federer said. MOST WINS OF ALL TIME 1 Jimmy Connors 1256 2 Roger Federer 1100...