Marianne Bevis Archives: 11/2012

At the start of 2012, two teenagers heralded a tennis resurgence in a sport-mad Olympic Britain. Heather Watson, who would turn 20 in May, was…

As 2011 became 2012, one name seemed destined to dominate women’s tennis. Petra Kvitova had soared through the previous 12 months to reach No2 in…

When Andy Murray faced the media at the ATP World Tour Finals for the last time, it was Remembrance Day, and one day short of…

It was the summer of 1998, and the world’s best young tennis player was about to take his first step into the professional tour. Roger…

Former doubles world No1 Gisela Dulko has announced her retirement from tennis. The 27-year-old Argentine steps away from the game to focus on other priorities…

The biggest annual event in team sport, the Davis Cup, wanted to make a bang with its 100th final in Prague this year. And the…

The 100th final of the Davis Cup between David Ferrer’s Spain and Tomas Berdych’s Czech Republic has the makings of a very special occasion indeed.…

The final of finals, the season’s climax between the top tennis players of the year, saw the best of the best, the No1 and No2…

It all ends here. Such has been the message—writ large and spoken with foreboding—ahead of each match of the 2012 ATP World Tour Finals. If…

With one finalist in the frame, the second proved to be a still more intriguing match-up. Roger Federer and Andy Murray had played 18 times…

It was a day for the history books. Semi-final Sunday at the World Tour Finals would welcome the one millionth fan through the doors and…

The final day of round-robin competition brought one of the most highly anticipated matches of the week—an extraordinary eighth meeting in 2012 between two of…

By the time Andy Murray and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga took to court on Friday night, the qualification issue was pretty straightforward, thanks to Novak Djokovic’s defeat…

It would take an unexpected turn of events in the last phase of the Group A round-robins for World No1 Novak Djokovic to fail to…

It’s the half-way stage at the World Tour Finals, and some things never change. Novak Djokovic has beaten Andy Murray in yet another classic, race-to-the-wire…

The task facing David Ferrer in his second match at the World Tour Finals was truly formidable. He had played Roger Federer 13 times across…

The main arena at the O2 is well used to the sartorial superiority of the two top-ranked men in tennis. Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic,…

World No1 Novak Djokovic may have opened proceedings on day one against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, teasing the crowd with a close first set before closing it…

Looking at the career record of Juan Martin del Potro, and at his size and his power, it may come as a surprise that he…

If No1 Novak Djokovic took centre stage on day one, it was possibly the king of the ATP World Tour Finals, world No2 Roger Federer,…

It’s opening night of the 2012 ATP World Tour Finals, and the honour of taking centre stage was handed to the newly-crowned world No1, Novak…