Marianne Bevis Archives: 02/2013

It took minutes rather than hours for the third and fourth seeds Tomas Berdych and Juan Martin del Potro to race through their daytime quarter-finals…

So the prestigious, award-winning, $2m Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships are down to the last eight, and each of the quarter-finals has its allotted seed.…

Both Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic are multiple winners in Dubai, and the prospect of a final between them—a repeat of the 2011 final—is an…

It’s mid-week at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Centre, and the 32 men who began the journey towards a share of the $2m prize money…

A confident world No1 is a scary No1, and the prospect of a confident Novak Djokovic is a particularly intimidating prospect. The top man has…

The second day at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships was like a fine box of chocolates: The selection of matches catered for every taste…

Timing is everything, and with the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships in full swing when the ATP announced the winners of its tournament awards for…

The buzz throughout the opening day at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships was of Roger Federer, five-time winner and defending champion. He alone of…

In the grander scheme of things, perhaps 40 years is not such a long time, but in the fast-moving kaleidoscope of modern sport it is…

By almost any measure, it would be hard to describe the 24-carat life of Roger Federer tough—and with good reason. Gifted the kind of talent…

They may have been ranked seventh and eighth in the world, but that aside, there were huge contrasts between the finalists of the Dubai Premier,…

And so, after a brief sojourn in Europe and North America, the men’s tour bids farewell to the indoor courts and moves back beneath the…

Just a day after the top seed Victoria Azarenka withdrew injured from the Dubai Duty Free Premier tournament, the second seed and new world No1,…

One of the biggest women’s titles of the year outside the Grand Slams and the WTA Championships, the Qatar Open Premier in Doha, saw a…

The odds may have been stacked against the 31-year-old Frenchman Julien Benneteau, but even the most hard-hearted of tennis followers would surely have found a…

The collision of stars that took place behind the scenes at the ABN AMRO tennis event in Rotterdam could do no harm at all to…

They had never met before, the No2 seed Juan Martin del Potro and the younger man newly into the top 40, Grigor Dimitrov. It was,…

Roger Federer had been the hot favourite—give or take a certain Juan Martin del Potro—to defend his title in Rotterdam. His chances, and the hopes…

If age is a state of mind, then three of the eight men in the Rotterdam quarter-finals that got under way on Friday probably feel…

With the ABN AMRO championships in Rotterdam reaching the half-way stage and the second round nearing completion, the quarter-final line-up was almost set. Thus far,…

The early indoor season is showing a distinct liking for Gallic flair. In the first week of February’s indoor swing, Montpellier saw five French names…