LONDON (Reuters) - Roger Federer described his performance against Andy Murray to win the Australian Open title as possibly the best of his career and his words were not intended just to make the tearful Scot feel better. Improbably the 28-year-old Swiss, who notched a 16th grand slam title with his 6-3 6-4 7-6 victory, appears to be still improving, which ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The mind games have already started ahead of Sunday's Australian Open final between Roger Federer and Andy Murray. Murray is brimming with confidence, saying he has the game to take down the world number one because he has done it six times before. Federer believes Murray could get stage-fright because he has never beaten him in a ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Rafael Nadal is hopeful the knee injury that forced him out of the Australian Open will have healed in a week or less, the world number two said on Thursday. "I am not worried," Nadal told reporters at Barcelona airport before heading to a clinic for tests overseen by Spanish tennis federation (RFET) doctor Angel Ruiz Cotorro. "I ...

Rafael Nadal's injury-enforced withdrawal from the Australian Open has once again raised doubts as to whether tennis has seen the best of him. The mercurial Spaniard limped out of his engrossing quarter-final on Tuesday with rising British star Andy Murray early in the third set, trailing by two sets, with a recurrence of a knee injury that blighted his ...