Marianne Bevis Archives: 10/2012

Before it even began, the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris Bercy, the last of tennis’s Masters tournaments—indeed the last regular men’s tournament of the year—had…

For the seventh time in 2012, Roger Federer and Juan Martin del Potro faced one another across a tennis court, the latest contest in what…

The semi-finals in Basel held rather fewer surprises than their opposite number in Valencia. The three top seeds were all present and correct: Roger Federer,…

The evening session of Basel’s quarter-final day promised both the home-town boy and defending champion, Roger Federer, and the man too often burdened with the…

As the Basel draw funnelled into its final stages, there was more and more to make the mouth water. The top two seeds, the two…

France boasted four men in the Swiss Indoors draw, a tally equalled only by the home nation, and it will see three of them in…

Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from the Paris Masters and ATP World Tour finals due to a left knee injury. The world No4 has not played…

With little more than a week to go, and key contenders Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Janko Tipsarevic retiring in their first-round matches in Valencia, the final…

Roger Federer had only played the tall, aggressive left-hander from Brazil, Thomaz Bellucci, once before. However, that first meeting, in Indian Wells this year, was…

It was one of those bizarre moments that you get in tennis but in few other sports at the highest level of competition. On Basel’s…

It seemed only right that Juan Carlos Ferrero, former French Open champion and world No1, should bid farewell to his long and golden career in…

The problem with Nikolay Davydenko in recent years has been that, when he’s good, he’s very, very good, but when he’s been bad he’s not…

There is one fact that may have gone unnoticed about the headline names in Valencia and Basel this week—indeed one factor that permeates both the…

When you’ve been coming to a place every year since you were 18—as Roger Federer has done to the Swiss Indoors tournament—it must feel like…

The Grand Slams have been and gone, the Asian swing has been short and sweet, and the tennis tour has headed to Europe for the…

There are only three precious places left on the plane to London for the season-ending climax in 14 days’ time, and the big men of…

The second round of an end-of-season ATP 250 tournament may not be the high-spot of a year that celebrated Andy Murray taking Olympic gold on…

With fewer than five days to go until the WTA Championships bring the women’s tennis year to a dramatic climax, the final line-up was only…

With the the year-end No1 still up for grabs by Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer, the race to one of the top prizes in this…

Ahead of their 16th meeting, their sixth of 2012, Novak Djokovic was quick to quell any idea that he was after revenge for his two…

Heather Watson fended off four match points in the final set of a marathon three-and-a-quarter hour match to become the first British woman to win…