Roger Federer booked his place in the ATP World Tour Finals for a record-tying 12th consecutive year when he dismissed South African Kevin Anderson 6-4, 6-4 to reach the third round of the Paris Masters on Wednesday.
The Serb's dominance in 2016, says Bikash Mohapatra/Rediff.com, is way beyond numbers. It's about how he forced his opponents into submission.
A long season took its toll on Roger Federer on Thursday as the Swiss was knocked out of the Paris Masters following a 7-6(3) 3-6 7-6(5) third-round defeat by big serving John Isner.
American teenage sensation Coco Gauff became the youngest player to win a WTA title in 15 years as she beat former French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko in the Linz Open final on Sunday.
Roger Federer set up a mouthwatering semi-final with Rafael Nadal at the ATP World Tour finals after battling past Juan Martin del Potro in their Group B shoot-out.
American tennis legend John McEnroe has hailed Novak Djokovic as one of the greats of all time after the Serb again claimed the year-end world number one spot with a victory at the ATP Tour Finals on Friday.
Roddick ended the season ranked No. 1 but Wimbledon champion Federer is being hailed as the best player in men's tennis.
Roger Federer made a comfortable start to his quest for a 100th title, despatching Fabio Fognini in straight sets to ease into the quarter-finals at the Paris Masters on Thursday.
Fifth seed Roger Federer was dumped out of the Shanghai Open, losing to Frenchman Gael Monfils 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-3 in the third round on Thursday.
Big-serving Isner reaches Montreal second round
Prajnesh, India's top-ranked singles player at 122, downed the local wild card Jason Kubler 7-5, 6-3 in the first round
The lanky wild card kissed the Montreal court after completing a rousing 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(4) triumph as the 18-year-old became the youngest player to ever reach the quarter-finals of an ATP Masters 1000 event.
She is the second Swiss player to win the tournament after Martina Hingis won the inaugural edition in 2001.
The world number one registered an easy 6-4, 6-3 victory in the quarter-final of the Hamburg Masters.
Factbox on Rafael Nadal, who beat Dominic Thiem to win his 12th French Open title:
The Swiss ace claimed his third title of the year by crushing Finland's Jarkko Nieminen in the final.
Bhupathi and partner Max Mirnyi advanced to the second round in the ATP Tennis Masters while Paes and Divid Rikl lost in the first.
Roger Federer is guaranteed to end the year as world number one after winning his 11th title of 2005 at the Thailand Open.
The world number one retained his Thailand Open title with a 6-3, 7-5 victory over British teenager Andy Murray.
After a brief interruption when the players were locked at 5-5 in the opening set, Federer saved two set points in the tiebreak and held firm to gain the upper hand in the contest.
French Open champion Rafael Nadal has pulled out of next week's Queen's Club grasscourt tournament, saying he needs more time to recover after winning his 11th Roland Garros title.
Serbian former world number one Novak Djokovic will be in action at his home club, working under old coach Marian Vajda -- desperately searching for some spark after tumbling down to 13th in the rankings.
Andy Roddick battled past feisty Argentine Guillermo Coria to book the last semi-final berth at the ATP Masters Cup.
Wimbledon champion Roger Federer saved two match points before defeating Andre Agassi at the ATP Masters Cup.
Andy Roddick, Juan Carlos Ferrero and Roger Federer are in the running for the title at next week's Masters Cup.\n\n
Rafael Nadal's uncle, Toni Nadal, will step down as his coach after this year's ATP Tour, as he feels he has been sidelined by other figures in the player's entourage, he told an Italian tennis magazine.
Top seed Dominic Thiem was knocked out the Rio Open in the first round on Tuesday, going down 6-3, 6-3 to Laslo Djere.
Rafael Nadal has played down the significance of his quarter-final defeat by Austrian Dominic Thiem at the Madrid Open
'The governing bodies, especially Grand Slams, need to allocate enough funds to support lower-ranked players, low-level tournaments, futures, challengers and I believe there is enough funds for those too.'
The duo could face each other at the quarter-final stage.
Japan's Kei Nishikori surged to a three-set victory over alternate David Ferrer at the ATP World Tour Finals on Thursday before sitting back to watch his fate unfold in the night match.
'This has been an emotional week and I want to thank everyone for the outpouring of support.'
The world number one crushed Spaniard David Ferrer in the first round of the Qatar Open to set up a clash with Briton Greg Rusedski.
South Korean Chung Hyeon managed to hang around against Roger Federer a little longer this time around, but only just, as the Swiss maestro advanced to the semi-finals of the BNP Paribas Open 7-5, 6-1 on Thursday.
'If he can stay as healthy as he is now, without injury, motivated, looking after himself the way he is....'
Rafael Nadal celebrated his 1,000th tour level match with a come-from-behind victory over German veteran Philipp Kohlschreiber to reach the fourth round of the Miami Open.
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