Marianne Bevis Archives: 09/2013

It is the kind of comment that Rafael Nadal has made his own since he burst into the top 10 and notched up 11 titles,…

On the day after Li Na became the fifth player to qualify for the WTA Championships, Petra Kvitova took a significant step closer to qualification…

It has been some week for the best player in women’s tennis. Serena Williams celebrated her 32nd birthday just a fortnight after winning her 32nd…

The elite four in women’s tennis have already sealed their sought-after places at the tour’s climax, the WTA Championships in Istanbul, in just one month’s…

As the men’s tennis tour comes full circle back to where it began on the western Pacific seaboard in January, there is far more at…

Maria Sharapova and Agnieszka Radwanska are the latest players to have qualified for this year’s WTA Championships in Istanbul. The 26-year-old Sharapova has qualified for…

After winning all three of his rubbers in last weekend’s Davis Cup World Group Play-off in Croatia, Andy Murray admitted that there were a couple…

Several teams had already sealed their place in 2014’s Davis Cup World Group by the end of the second of three days of compelling competition…

The only time that the GB Davis Cup team had played Croatia before was in 2007, and the combined efforts of Andy Murray and Tim…

With the gates of Flushing Meadows closed on the 2013 US Open just a couple of days ago, all eyes turn to the biggest annual…

It has been a US Open where many things seemed very different but where many things turned out to be much the same. The capricious…

So one former champion, Rafael Nadal in 2010, and two men who had never reached the semi-finals at the US Open before—Richard Gasquet and Stanislas…

The final quarter-final day at the US Open featured the two men who fought for almost five hours in pursuit of the 2012 title: Andy…

The draw for the US Open promised the first-ever meeting in New York between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer after 31 career matches. But it…

There have been some seismic shocks along the way—Roger Federer losing to a man he had beaten in all 10 previous matches, Juan Martin del…

Defending champion Andy Murray has not had the easiest of routes to the quarter-finals at this year’s US Open. His was the last scheduled match…

It’s that stage of a Grand Slam when the devoted tennis fan needs at least four sets of eyes and a very sharp brain to…

The heavy rain over New York did more than simply disrupt the schedule: It threw the women’s draw into disarray. The top half was done…

So the 128 were reduced to the final 16 by their target date of Labour Day in New York. Some big names were felled along…

The warning signs were there for the five-time US Open champion, Roger Federer, right from the start. He was scheduled to play in the heat…

With just days to go until the International Olympic Committee votes on which new sport will be added to the 2020 Games, the support for…