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Roger Federer discusses his victory over Marin Cilic on Thursday and explains what he learned that he thinks will help him moving forward. Watch live tennis at TennisTV.com.

Typically a picture of calm, regardless of the score, Roger Federer still grapples with much of the same internal dialogues as his peers at crunch times on court. The 36-year-old conceals it better than most, but during a three-set triumph over Alexander Zverev at the Nitto ATP Finals on Tuesday, he admits he let it bubble to the surface at times. Having already qualified for his 14th semi-final in 15 appearances at the season finale, there is less chance of much frustration showing in his final round-robin clash against No. 7 seed Marin Cilic on Thursday. Even a man playing as freely and confidently as Federer in 2017, though, needs to give himself a pep talk in the heat of...

Stars at the Nitto ATP Finals, including Roger Federer and Sascha Zverev, try to guess what famous cockney rhyming slang phrases might mean.

Roger Federer has strategically gone back to the slice. Federer defeated Alexander Zverev 7-6(6), 5-7, 6-1 to be the first player to advance to the semi-final stage of the Nitto ATP Finals after a masterful performance at The O2 on Tuesday night. If you caught just one sentence of his post-match press conference, all you needed to hear was this: “I think I was able to stay the course and use my slice quite effectively, then try with variation and go into his forehand,” Federer said. Federer is back to hitting a lot more slice returns and slice backhands in London because the court conditions and the opponent simply dictate it. Federer Returns The Federer renaissance in 2017 has been...

Big forehands make for great highlights and aces for quick games, but variety might be the key to success on the ATP World Tour, and Roger Federer showed plenty of it on Tuesday night during his 7-6(6), 5-7, 6-1 win against Alexander Zverev at the Nitto ATP Finals. Federer moved the 6'6” Zverev around the court with drop shots and slices. But the six-time champion was also happy to flatten out his groundstrokes against the 20-year-old right-hander, who had beaten Federer during their only prior hard-court matchup. “I think I was able to stay the course and use my slice quite effectively, then try with variation to go into his forehand,” Federer said. Now, after a 2-0 start in London,...