Winter closes in on Rafael Nadal’s stormy year
These are testing times for one of tennis’s most intense and most intensely followed men: Rafael Nadal. He has the kind of physical presence, unbreakable…
Marianne Bevis Archives: 09/2012
Heather Watson takes Sharapova to the brink in her Asian debut
With 11 of the top dozen women in the world making the long journey to the Far East for the final push to the WTA…
Laura Robson continues assault on rankings with first WTA final
After a ground-breaking run at the US Open earlier this month, beating two Grand Slam champions before falling to the defending champion, Laura Robson broke…
Roger Federer: harvesting the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Autumn: The season of warm sunshine and cool evenings, of golden mornings and burnished afternoons, of dewy lawns and slanting shadows. It’s a season of…
Federer, Ferrer, Del Potro lead seven top-12 men in big Davis Cup ties
Davis Cup forces a tough turn-around after an exhausting summer of tennis, and the demands are especially heavy on the high-ranked men who have gone…
Murray & the British belles: Ten memorable US Open 2012 moments
It turned into one of the most memorable US Open’s of recent years. The weather may have been familiar, the climax on a third Monday,…
Andy Murray lights the final beacon in Britain’s 2012 summer
The signs were, if not in the stars then in the skies over London and New York. On one side of the Atlantic, summer gave…
US Open 2012: Mighty Andy Murray makes 76-year history in New York
They were the last two men standing. After tornadoes, heat in the 30s and humidity close to saturation, monsoon-style showers and gale-force winds, the No2…
US Open 2012: Stunning Serena Williams denies Victoria Azarenka
The last women’s Grand Slam match of the year may have had to sit out the New York storms, but this particular Flushing Meadows cloud…
US Open 2012: Murray beats Berdych & elements to reach final
It was Super Saturday at the 2012 US Open, so the forecast must be rain. Well, the threat of rain at least—enough to ensure that…
US Open 2012: Victoria Azarenka sets up final against Serena Williams
As surely as night followed day, so it had become a near certainty that the last four men standing at the sharp end of a…
US Open 2012: Andy Murray routs Milos Raonic to reach quarter-finals
Andy Murray may have reached the final of the US Open before, along with three other Grand Slam finals. He may have reached the semis…
US Open 2012: Roger Federer into last eight as Mardy Fish pulls out
Mardy Fish, the American No23 seed, has withdrawn from his scheduled fourth-round match this afternoon against Roger Federer, citing “health concerns.” Alarm bells began to…
US Open 2012: Top seeds Federer and Azarenka head week two
The 128 men and 128 women have been whittled down to just 16 men and 12 women as Labor Day announces the second week of…
US Open 2012: Stosur proves one Slam champion too far for Robson
Eighteen-year-old Laura Robson, the youngest player in the top 100, seems to have grown before our eyes. It is just a year ago that here,…
US Open 2012: Ferrer tops Hewitt in battle of over-30 warriors
The day before his 30th birthday, Andy Roddick talked of the burden of the modern game and why it is so hard for young players…
US Open 2012: Williams and Radwanska make it 7th heaven
It appears that quality will out when it comes to the women’s draw at the US Open. Of the top dozen seeds, only two have…
US Open 2012: Roger Federer and Andy Murray defeat Spanish Armada
Two of tennis’s pin-up boys were, conveniently, both given the big stages on one of the busiest days of the US Open fortnight: Labour Day…
US Open 2012: Laura Robson downs Li Na to continue dream run
When the draw for the US Open was made, all British eyes searched for where the three British women in the main draw had fallen.…