Marianne Bevis Archives: 08/2012

Johanna Konta had already made a name for herself here in New York, striding through three qualifying rounds and then winning her first career Grand…

In a shock announcement on the afternoon of his 30th birthday, Andy Roddick told the media at Flushing Meadows that he had decided to retire…

The first round in the US Open men’s draw has been a story of the long and the short, but in the end of relatively…

Kim Clijsters was asked about her second-round opponent, Laura Robson, after comprehensively beating another teenager in her opening match. With her usual affable generosity, she…

Johanna Konta, growing in confidence, it seems, with each blistering day, has won her first career Grand Slam match to progress to the second round…

Laura Robson has a mountain of a task ahead of her, and not just the test of her tennis. For in winning her first match…

Andy Murray began a campaign on the opening day of the US Open that could turn him into a very rare breed indeed. For there…

British No1 Heather Watson has not had the best of fortune when it comes to draws on the big stages of women’s tennis. At this…

The US Open is the second oldest of the four Grand Slams after Wimbledon—and it is the last, the biggest and most richly rewarded of…

It’s the last Grand Slam of the year, the biggest and brightest one, packed with colour and music, fast food and cool cocktails, towered over…

It doesn’t seem to matter what spot you put him on, what audience you put before him, or what challenge you throw at him. Roger…

The Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre is a blaze of noise, colour and excitement, filled with families, children, and bands of dayglo-clad school groups.…

Things continue to look rosy for the future of British women’s tennis as a new name was yesterday added to the three already in the…

One wonders whether anything could make Serena Williams’ summer of 2012 any better: a fifth Wimbledon title followed by Olympic gold sealed her ‘Golden Slam’,…

Ever since world No3 Rafael Nadal withdrew from the US Open draw, it was the question on everyone’s lips: Would Andy Murray fall in Roger…

While the little known Molla Mallory holds the record for the most US Open singles titles—eight—it was the remarkable Helen Wills Moody who, at the…

Despite her consecutive losses to Serena Williams in the semis of Wimbledon and the Olympics, Victoria Azarenka’s consistency since she opened 2012 with four straight…

With Roger Federer’s No1 consolidated by his fifth Cincinnati Masters title on Sunday, the five-time US Open champion has been named top seed in the…

The talk and the toast of London town in the summer of 2012, in one particular corner of the Olympic capital, will always be remembered…

There was a certain inevitability about the line-up come the final day of the Cincinnati Masters. Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic were, after all, playing…

World No1 Roger Federer and No2 Novak Djokovic are separated by a mere 75 points in the rankings and top the seedings this week in…