Marianne Bevis Archives: 11/2013

Part two in our review of the year’s most compelling women’s matches looks at numbers one to three. 1. Wimbledon semi-finals: Sabine Lisicki beat Agnieszka…

The latest in our review of the 2013 tennis season looks at the most compelling matches. The selection attempts to balance entertainment, drama and special…

Part two in our review of the year’s most compelling matches looks at numbers one to three. 1. Wimbledon semi-finals: Novak Djokovic beat Juan Martin…

The latest in our review of the 2013 tennis season looks at the most compelling matches. The selection attempts to balance entertainment, drama and special…

Two down, half a dozen to go, but to leaven this year’s weighty series of reviews, here’s the first of a lightweight, unashamedly superficial interlude.…

The latest in our review of the 2013 tennis season focuses on the wave of young women making strides through the year. The selection, as…

The first in a series of reviews of the 2013 tennis season, highlights the men, both new and familiar, who made great strides during the…

Laura Robson, who turns 20 during the first Major tournament of 2014, the Australian Open, announced this week that she has taken on the 31-year-old…

Defending champions the Czech Republic, despite entering the Serbian lion’s den of Belgrade this weekend, and despite seeing the formidable world No2 Novak Djokovic in…

Once again, The O2 in London has proved to be a near perfect setting for the climax of the men’s tennis tour. There is no…

The debate about who is the ‘greatest ever’ tennis player will no doubt fill column inches for as long as fuzzy yellow balls are hit…

Eight men, eight days, and more than a quarter of a million fans—and it all comes down in the end to the top two players…

Novak Djokovic, defending champion, had put up some fight against Richard Gasquet in his third and final round robin match just 24 hours before his…

This time last year, in this place at this tournament, the picture was very different for the two pin-ups of tennis. Rafael Nadal had been…

In the end, the final place in the semi-finals of last tournament of the year, the prestigious ATP World Tour Finals, would have nothing to…

It turned into one of the most unusual post-match news conferences of the year when Novak Djokovic arrived after his round-robin victory over Roger Federer…

The round-robin format of the ATP World Tour Finals, featuring as it does the best eight tennis players in the world, is a delight for…

It seems that tennis, in a very modest way, is rediscovering its grass roots—literally. Just months after Wimbledon made the surprise announcement that The Championships…

If Roger Federer and Richard Gasquet provided a taste-bud-tingling aperitif in the second round of Group B action, what followed promised to be one of…

Roger Federer may have lost to Richard Gasquet only twice in a dozen previous meetings, but the match they were about to play may have…

Roger Federer appeared in less familiar dress on Centre Court at the ATP World Tour Finals on Wednesday. No banadana, no Nike apparel, but instead…