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Well, it looks like they didn't name that new stadium in Madrid "The Magic Box" for nothing. It turns out the first event ever held in the joint left the capacity crowd, as well as an enormous television audience, scratching it's collective head and ...

Roger Federer will find his abandoned form in Madrid, upset Rafael Nadal in the final and head into the French Open in high gear. That's plausible -- right?

Mischa Zverev gave Roger Federer all he could handle in the first set of their Italian Open encounter on Friday, and I'm sure that a number of people watching the match hoped that Federer learned something useful in the course of his 7-6 (2), 6-2 wi...

Look, no one is elbowing each other out of the way to take a shot at Rafael Nadal on clay. He owns the dirt and isn't slowing down.

Five imperative questions heading into the clay season

The reality that Rafael Nadal might lose ground on clay, and Roger Federer's relief that the hard-court season is over: Are we in complete disarray, or what?

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -- Just as we got settled in and comfy, ready to savor the Roger Federer-versus-Rafael Nadal rivalry, a few interested parties began to bang on the door, call the land line, flood the inbox and Twitter away with an overriding messa...

It's not a good day to be Roger Federer. The immediate reason is the result of the Australian Open final, which he lost in five sets to Rafael Nadal. As anyone reading this must already know, Federer on Sunday morning stood poised to equal Pete Sampr...

If you thought Roger Federer might follow Rafael Nadal's lead and pull out of the Tennis Master's Cup, you haven't been paying attention to the emerging narrative. Roger Federer has reached the same point Pete Sampras did shortly after he wrapped up ...

The Open-era highlight reel features extraordinary moments in tennis history, including the recent Roger Federer vs. Rafael Nadal Wimbledon final, the 2000 Wimbledon final in which Pete Sampras shattered the all-time Grand Slam singles title record h...

Sam Querrey makes his debut as a U.S. Davis Cup player on the red clay against heavily favored Spain (led by Rafael Nadal) at the end of next week, and although this is a semifinal, the decision to play Querrey will remind some pundits of Pete Sampra...

On the eve of the U.S. Open, hopes are running high in New York for a rematch of the epic Wimbledon final between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, but recent events suggest that it probably won't happen. For one thing, only one player of the 10 sample...

What once seemed impossible, but then slowly morphed into the tenable and then became the inevitable has finally become official: Rafael Nadal has become the No. 1-ranked tennis player in the universe. In order to get there, he had to scale Mt. Fed...

When I saw Rafael Nadal hit the deck after his Olympic Games semifinal win over Novak Djokovic (I gave him a nine out of 10 for that particular back flop) it occurred to me that his exuberance was caused by more than Djokovic's ugly unforced error (a...

It's official -- Rafael Nadal will assume the No. 1 ranking Aug. 18, changing places with Roger Federer. This represents a long-term achievement for Nadal, who began his campaign to unseat the Swiss maestro from a bunker in the clay, conceding the gr...

For nearly three critical years, only one thing has stood between Roger Federer and a degree of domination previously unseen in the game of tennis. That has been Rafael Nadal. This is, in and of itself, extraordinary: The man who may wind up acknowle...