Roger Federer

The best players who haven't won a Grand Slam

The list Zverev just escaped: the 12 best players of the Open era never to win a Grand Slam (retired)

Tennis Majors takes a closer look at some of the top players who never won a Grand Slam. It is also an opportunity to give them back some of the glory that misfortune has eternally, and more or less unfairly, denied them. Official : Alexander Zverev is not a contender anymore after Roland-Garros 2026.

Rémi Bourrières

June 7, 2026

“The sky is the limit”: how Mirra Andreeva built a champion out of a world-class player

Through a coach who named the barriers and a Federer model she chose to inhabit, Mirra Andreeva turned a turbulent season into a maiden Roland-Garros title at 19. Conchita Martínez explains how a world-class player became a champion.

Cédric Rouquette

June 6, 2026

“I wanted to impersonate Roger”: how watching Federer in Paris shaped Andreeva’s title run

After a spring of frayed nerves, Mirra Andreeva spent her Roland-Garros fortnight watching old Roger Federer matches and trying to carry herself the way he did. At 19, the newly crowned champion explains how impersonating her idol's calm helped her choose to be a fighter.

Cédric Rouquette

June 6, 2026

May 31, 2009: The day Rafael Nadal lost at Roland-Garros for the first time

Every day, Tennis Majors takes you back in time to relive a tennis event which happened on this specific day. On May 31, 2009, the unthinkable happened, as Rafael Nadal went down to Sweden's Robin Soderling in a massive upset

Roger Federer

The list Zverev just escaped: the 12 best players of the Open era never to win a Grand Slam (retired)

“The sky is the limit”: how Mirra Andreeva built a champion out of a world-class player

“I wanted to impersonate Roger”: how watching Federer in Paris shaped Andreeva’s title run

May 31, 2009: The day Rafael Nadal lost at Roland-Garros for the first time

Monfils: “Roland-Garros gave me 99.9% of my dreams, except the trophy”

May 17, 2009: The day Federer beat Nadal on clay in Madrid

May 16, 2009: The day Nadal and Djokovic played the longest three-set match in ATP Masters 1000 history

May 2, 2007: The day Federer and Nadal played the Battle of Surfaces

April 28 1968: The day Ken Rosewall beat Rod Laver in Bournemouth to win the first ever Open tournament

April 15, 2005: The day 18-year-old Gasquet upset world No 1 Roger Federer in Monte-Carlo

April 6, 2001: The day France’s Arnaud Clement defeated Swiss Marc Rosset in a marathon Davis Cup clash

April 3, 2005: The day Federer recovered to beat Nadal in the Miami Open final

April 2, 1999: The day Roger Federer made his Davis Cup debut

March 28, 2004: The day Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal kicked off their rivalry with a stunning upset win for the Spaniard

March 27, 2007: The day Canas defeated Federer – again – in Miami

March 21, 2008: Mardy Fish wins in Indian Wells despite hole in shoe

March 10, 2008: The day Roger Federer beat his idol Pete Sampras in an exhibition

March 6, 2006: The birth of Hawk-Eye and the challenge system

March 5, 2006: The day James Blake finally beat Lleyton Hewitt and won the Las Vegas title

March 4, 2006: The day Rafael Nadal ended Roger Federer’s 56-match hard court streak