As we watched Federer hit one shot after another for 30 minutes, Barrett intermittently compared Federer and other tennis titans—Sampras, Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Lew Hoad, Pancho Gonzales.

Roger Federer wasn’t going to play tennis forever. Aged 41 and having endured one injury after another in recent years, the sand was rapidly falling to the bottom of the hourglass.

The 2008 Wimbledon final between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer is often described as the greatest match of ... I was sent out about 21:10 for the Charlie Pasarell-Pancho Gonzales match in 1969 ...

Roger Federer fought back tears through watery eyes Friday after his final professional tennis match. But, with longtime rival and contemporary Rafael Nadal by his side for a 6-4, 6-7 (2-7), 9-11 ...

Gael Monfils has become the oldest player to win an ATP Tour title in history, overtaking Roger Federer’s record which had stood since 2019. The Frenchman beat Zizou Bergs 6-3, 6-4 in Auckland ...

Roger Federer, the 20-time Grand Slam champion, announced on Thursday that he plans to retire from tennis this year. Here are some of the skills that made him one of the best of all time → ...

Roger Federer, the master of reinvention. Charlie Eccleshare. Sept. 16, 2022 Updated June 6, 2023. For a man widely assumed to have achieved all that he did because of his otherworldly talent ...

Nadal is ending his tennis career with the Davis Cup, where he and Spain face the Netherlands in a "Final 8" showdown. He's scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11 a.m. ET, in a match carried by the ...

The last match of Roger Federer’s 24-year professional career was about to begin, and Andy Murray, one of his rivals turned teammates at this Laver Cup in London, kept his advice short and sweet.

Federer had won four Grand Slam titles by then; he would win Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in 2005 as well, moving 6-1 ahead in a title count that would finish 22-20 in Nadal’s favor.

Asif Kapadia and Joe Sabia’s sports documentary captures plenty of tears and even a little tennis, but Roger Federer deserves a more probing portrait. In his two previous sports documentaries ...

(He was even once voted the second most admired person in the world after Nelson Mandela.) “Federer: Twelve Final Days,” a polite documentary by Asif Kapadia and Joe Sabia, follows the living ...