Mens Singles Tennis News

This seasons first Grand Slam event the Australian Open will take place in Melbourne, Australia between the 16th and 29th January and the bookmakers are universal in their decision to make Novak Djokovic a warm favourite to walk away with the Men's Title. Should you wish to back Novak Djokovic then Ladbrokes currently offer the best odds of 2.38 on the four-time Grand Slam winner making it number five. According to some recent Wiki postings though things may not be that…

Although Roger Federer and Andy Murray are worthy of their positions at the head of the ATP World Tour Finals market Tomas Berdych looks rather attractively priced at 23.00 with Bet 365 to cause an upset. Berdych opens his quest to take the title against Novak Djokovic on Monday evening and that could well be the right time to be playing the Serbian. The World Number One has been suffering with shoulder problems of late and had to withdraw from the Paris Masters just over a…

The 10-O’Clock news was almost upon us before Andy Murray came through his third round match against Ivan Ljubicic last night but no matter, the Scot was victorious in 4-sets 6-4 4-6 6-1 7-6 (7/4). After a fairly comfortable first set, Murray allowed the veteran Croation back into the match in the second set but a 6-1 victory in set 3 looked to spell the end for Ljubicic. However, to his credit, the former world number 3 fought back and the 7-6 (7/4) final set shows it…

Speaking to the press this week, Andy Murray outlined his thoughts ahead of Wimbledon; "I'm not looking anywhere past the first match. It's not worth it. It's happened to me before when I was younger and you lose if you're thinking about playing against Nadal in the semi-finals or whoever it is in the quarter-finals. There's tough matches everywhere, as you would have seen last year. Rafa had a couple of long matches that he nearly lost, Roger…

The Sony Ericsson Open in Miami has claimed a couple of seeded players early. Andy Roddick succumbed to the effects of a chest infection and after a troubled time on court, the American went out to Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas 6-4 7-6 (4). 10th seed Jurgen Melzer also met with an unexpected defeat, crashing out to Philipp Petzschner 6-3 6-4. There were no problems for either Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer though as the pair took their opening matches with a degree of ease. …

Former world number four Juan Martin del Potro will this evening play in his first final since returning from a wrist injury when he bids to win the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships title. Del Potro has yet to drop a set in this tournament and despatched the second-seeded American Mardy Fish 6-1 7-5 with the minimum of fuss. In this kind of form, he will take some stopping. His opponent, Serbian Janko Tipsarevic, has reached his first ATP final, a decent…

Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal are set to clash in the first Semi-Final at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals on Saturday and unlike many sporting events this weekend, the weather is likely to have little impact. Slightly bizarrely, Andy Murray was keen to play down his chance of beating Nadal after overcoming David Ferrer on Thursday, telling the press; "I'll try to win but I'm not sure I've got a whole lot of chance if I play against him. He's obviously…

The final of the Swiss Indoors at Basle could not be better poised, with home favourite Roger Federer due to take on the Serbian Novak Djokovic. Neither player has conceded a set en-route to the final and it is clear that both players are very comfortable on court. A year ago, the same two players contested the final and Djokovic won in 3-sets. Indeed, the Serb has won 6 of the last 13 clashes with Federer and the match is likely to be close. With this short format, a good start …

What a thrilling semi-final last night between Roger Federer on Novak Djokovic and having tipped the latter pre-tournament each-way, I am delighted with the result. Another massive hurdle stands between Djokovic and the crown though by name of Rafael Nadal. The world number one had a much easier passage through to the final, comfortably beating the Russian Mikhail Youzhny in straight sets. That could be a significant factor and the Spaniard could be the fresher of the two for…

Novak Djokovic carried my pre-tournament vote to make the final and today we will find out if that is going to be the case. Djokovic is a consistent player but the last 3-years have seen a similar exit for the Slovakian, going down to the great Roger Federer each time. Is there cause to expect any different this year? There isn’t really I guess; both players breezed through their quarter finals with relative ease and neither has had an especially taxing tournament thus…