Marianne Bevis Archives: 03/2014

In the end, the road to the title match of the Miami Masters may have been unconventional, but there was still a certain inevitability about…

Rafael Nadal may last year have put together one of the finest comebacks from injury ever made on a tennis court: He claimed 10 titles…

The semi-finals of one of the four prestigious Premier Mandatory tournaments in women’s tennis, in Miami Florida, ignited two high-profile rivalries. The bottom half brought…

For three matches in a row, the slender, 24-year-old world No21, Kei Nishikori, has beaten a higher-ranked player, but reached the second Masters semi-final of…

And so to the quarter-finals of one of the biggest tennis events outside the four Grand Slams, and all the usual suspects were present and…

The big Tuesday schedule in Miami had already produced some big matches and a couple of big upsets. It was no surprise that Novak Djokovic…

For many, this stage of the impressive 96-man draw in Miami is the best of the entire tournament. It’s the fourth round, and the day…

The bottom half of the huge Miami draw was already down to the last eight, and it had worked out precisely according to plan. The…

Billed as Super Sunday, this packed day in Miami was hot, humid and high on adrenalin as the third round of the men’s draw got…

The big headlines on the first day of the men’s draw at the Sony Open Tennis tournament ended up being less about what was happening…

It’s more than a dozen years since a pugnacious, bristling, in-your-face young Australian named Lleyton Hewitt, aged just 20, became tennis’s youngest No1 player. He…

The saturated colours of Miami’s Key Biscayne provide a glamorous backdrop for the tropical, high-octane Sony Open tennis tournament. Set in evergreen woodland, surrounded by…

One of the four elite WTA events of the year follows hot on the heels of the first as the Sony Open Premier Mandatory in…

For an entire decade, the men’s tennis landscape has been dominated by a remarkable quartet of players. Since 2004, only two men not named Roger…

Flavia Pennetta breezed past the injured Agnieszka Radwanska 6-2 6-1 to win the Indian Wells title. The 32-year-old Italian capitalised after the Pole suffered a…

When world No2 Novak Djokovic took to court to play his way to his first final of the 2014, he was aware that John Isner…

When all is said and done, things turned out pretty well for Indian Wells this year. Considering how top-heavy the men’s draw appeared to be,…

“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” James M Barrie With the midday sun high…

Victoria Azarenka has been forced to pull out of the Sony Open Tennis in Miami next week due to a reoccurring foot injury. The world…

The sharp end of the Indian Wells draw may be missing five of the top six seeds, including the No1 and defending champion Rafael Nadal,…

He may be the only remaining top-five player left standing in Indian Wells, but the No2 seed and two-time former champion Novak Djokovic almost didn’t…