Halle tournament director Ralf Weber says he was surprised by Roger Federer’s pull-out of the grass court Wimbledon warm-up. "The news arrived out of the blue. Yesterday was a shock," he told DPA.

Playing his first tournament since taking a break after his quarter-final exit at Indian Wells in March, Federer became the second high-profile casualty at the clay Masters event following Tuesday ...

NEW YORK(AP) Any chance he got, on TV and on the Web, Juan Martin del Potro wanted to watch replays of Roger Federer's last shot ... a blank expression on his face, while del Potro's big silver ...