Istanbul Open

Another final and yet another title for the GOAT as he scored a 6-3 7-6(11) victory over Pablo Cuevas in the inaugural TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open. The win means Roger now has 85 career titles across 19 different countries on the ATP Tour. The victory also sees the Swiss win his first title on red clay since the 2009 …

Another hard fought victory for Federer at the Garanti Koza Arena as he defeated a dogged Diego Schwartzman 2-6 6-2 7-5 to move into Sunday's final. Like the Gimeno-Traver match yesterday Roger was again tested by a solid, hard hitting opponent who knows how to get about a clay court very effectively. Ultimately though the Swiss was just that bit …

Not the dominant performance I expected from the GOAT here but he's into the Istanbul Semi Finals after a hard fought 7-6(3), 6-7(5), 6-3 victory over the in form Daniel Gimeno-Traver. After looking fairly solid in his opening match against Nieminen on Wednesday the Spaniard offered a much sterner test pushing the opener to a tie break, levelling things up …

Roger's up and running in Istanbul after he defeated Jarkko Nieminen for the 15th time in a row to make swift progress into the Quarter Finals. The 6-2 7-5 scoreline represents another routine win against the Finn and this was Roger's 200th career victory on clay. All in a day's work huh 🙂 Quick Match Recap Nieminen won the toss …

Hey guys, the Istanbul Open Draw went live earlier today and Roger has a pretty nice path to the final which was very much expected at a weak fielded ATP 250 clay tournament. This is the first ever ATP World Tour event in Turkey and the Swiss has obviously received an attractive offer to help boost the tournaments profile and …

Hey guys, here's Roger Federer's outfit for the pre French Open clay swing which encompasses Monte Carlo, Istanbul, Madrid and Rome. The good news is that Nike must have found the pattern to make polo shirts again as it makes a long overdue return 🙂 This outfit is in a very similar style to the ones worn at the Australian …

Looks like the rumours of Fed's appearance in Istanbul were true after all as it's just been confirmed he's playing the clay court tournament that starts on April 27th. I wasn't sure what to believe when I first saw it reported as it only came from one news outlet, however it's now all over the Official ATP Istanbul Open Website …