NEW YORK Ominous clouds overhead, the sort of hard court that troubled him underfoot, Roger Federer sensed something yesterday he hadn't in quite a while.
He was playing exactly like that guy named Roger Federer.
The Federer who has won 33 consecutive
Or should I say Herr Roger, as he is addressed in his hometown, Basel. He does better in this sector, the Flushing section of the New York borough of Queens, than he ever did in Switzerland, and Roger Federer says he feels "a little bit New Yorker."
THEY love him at Flushing Meadow.
Roger Federer's 33rd consecutive U.S Open win yesterday was as good as any of them, considering the 2008 disappointments he has suffered, considering the considerable quality of the opposition.
Federer started fast,
Roger Federer was acing like old times — up the middle, out wide, serving up even more frustration for the snarling Novak Djokovic.
The fans, having already rejected Djokovic after he had sourly challenged them in the pervious round, roared for Federer
New York; Serb Novak Djokovic applauded Roger Federer's play while bemoaning his own fatigue after losing 6-3, 5-7, 7-5, 6-2 in the US Open men's semi-final on Saturday.
The 21-year-old appeared listless early on against Federer after needing almost 10
The score was tied at one game apiece in the third set, after Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic had split the first two sets in their US Open semifinal on Arthur Ashe stadium today. You wouldn't exactly call it a critical point in the match, but it was
Even Wimbledon doesn’t issue tropical-storm warnings. But New York has its own meteorological patterns, among other unique perils served up at its late-summer school of hardcourt tennis knocks.
New York Times bloggers are following every serve, volley
Wimbledon it ain't, as they might say in Queens. The US Open is the kind of event where wearing your baseball cap back to front does not seem out of place. If baggy jeans hanging halfway down your backside didn't rather impede your movement, no doubt
Today is Sunday, Sept. 7, the 251st day of 2008. There are 115 days left in the year.
On Sept. 7, 1907, the British liner RMS Lusitania set out from Liverpool, England, on its maiden voyage, arriving six days later in New York. (Lusitania was sunk by a
The Williams sisters' refusal to play at Indian Wells after racists taunts seven years ago is about to cause a big problem for the