Men's Players Try to Catch Up to Federer
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Andy Roddick, Lleyton Hewitt and Andre Agassi knew they needed to do something drastic. Roger Federer was winning practically every tournament, and the gap between him and everyone else in men's tennis was growing.
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Consistency meets unpredictability when Roger Federer faces Marat Safin in Wimbledon's third round on Friday.
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WORLD No. 1 Roger Federer sees his title defence at the ATP Masters Cup in Houston as the start of his 2005 campaign rather than the end of a season that saw him capture three Grand Slam crowns.
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HOUSTON The men&#39;s top-ranked player, Roger Federer, has pronounced himself fit, rested and ready to end his season in style with a successful defense of his Masters Cup title here starting on Monday.
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PARIS -- Roger Federer prepared for a long day on court, even though it's been quite a while since he's had one at a major championship.
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World No. 1 Roger Federer will try and cap off a career year Sunday, adding a Masters Cup title to three slams when he faces Lleyton Hewitt in the final of the 2004 Masters Cup.
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World number one Roger Federer faces a tough task in his bid to win the French Open for the first time.
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NEW YORK -- The pressure came not from the burden of history that has, of late, begun to weigh on Roger Federer's shoulders. It came not from the men among whose names his will reside in the tennis annals. It came instead from the man sitting in Federer's player's box, the one wearing jeans and a baseball cap, his relaxation ...
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It's the match everyone wants to see. With Andy Roddick rediscovering his game, and top seed Roger Federer looking slightly vulnerable in his four-set win over James Blake Thursday night, there's a chance for a Roddick-Federer men's title match to be the showcase event -- with apologies to Andre Agassi and Marcos Baghdatis -- of the two-week ...
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Roger Federer, in search of a third straight Australian Open title, will face Novak Djokovic, one of three Serbs in the menâs and womenâs semifinals in Melbourne.
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Two-times defending champion Roger   Federer and 2003 titlist Justine Henin-Hardenne used different   paths to advance at the U.S. Open on Friday.
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Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal long ago established themselves as the best of the best in men's tennis, far ahead of anyone else in the game these days. Then, firmly entrenched at No. 1 and No. 2, they began meeting regularly in tournament finals. Now they finally have produced the other element any great sports rivalry needs: a scintillating showdown on the biggest of stages.
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New York: Lleyton Hewitt is getting frustrated meeting Roger Federer in the major events. For the third time in four Grand Slams this year, the Swiss got the better of Hewitt.
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MELBOURNE, Australia  - Champion Roger Federer led  an express-speed charge of seeded players through the first  round of the Australian Open Monday, with Andre Agassi also  making a confident start after an injury scare.
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Roger Federer prepared for a long day on court, even though it's been quite a while since he's had one at a Grand Slam. "I've got enough shirts for five-set matches in the bag," he said. "I only used one today, which was good."
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New York: Roger Federer may be just 23 years old but he is already in danger of exhausting all the challenges that his sport has to offer.
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Top seed Roger Federer and number two   Rafael Nadal are in action at the U.S. Open on Wednesday with   players, organizers and spectators alike hoping for better   weather.