Marianne Bevis Archives: 06/2014

Things were, thus far, working out quite nicely for Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, both former Wimbledon champions, friends and rivals born within a week…

Already, the women’s draw at this year’s Wimbledon has opened up like a flower in the sun that broke out over the All England Club…

Middle Sunday is a Wimbledon ritual: This remains the only Major to give the players, volunteers, fans—and courts—a rest at the half-way point of the…

Serena Williams vowed to continue working to find consistency after she suffered her earliest Wimbledon defeat since 2005, losing to Alize Cornet in the third…

It has become a section of the draw that could turn into a battle of the generations. The bottom half threw four of the most…

It’s the quiet before the storm, the early hours at the All England Club before the gates open, before the walkways become dense with fans,…

Things had been pretty straight-forward for defending champion and home favourite, Andy Murray, in the first week of Wimbledon. He got past a tricky first-round…

The big four: it’s become the short-hand in tennis for the quartet of men that has dominated tennis for the last decade. Since Wimbledon 2004,…

The pre-match statistics about Roger Federer’s campaign to avoid his shock second-round exit of last year’s Wimbledon came up with a very upbeat finding. They…

Heather Watson declared her desire to climb the rankings after she suffered a second-round Wimbledon defeat by German Angelique Kerber on Centre Court. The British…

For the world No1 and second seed at Wimbledon, this was nothing less than a very important day for the two-time former champion Rafael Nadal.…

It was midway through a tight—indeed edgy—contest between Tomas Berdych and Bernard Tomic that a collective sigh of disbelief, and not a little disappointment, filled…

This time last year, the first Wednesday at Wimbledon started like any other, but by its end, things were far from normal. Already Rafael Nadal…

Heather Watson was so nervous ahead of her first-round Wimbledon match that she struggled to bite into a banana before beating Ajla Tomljanovic in straight…

It happened to be one of those days that this tennis fan will remember for a very long time. It was 2004, and a young,…

It would have been quite understandable if there were some nerves and tension in the legs and shoulders of three of the biggest names in…

At every turn in the last couple of years, there have been men of a certain age proving that turning 30 is no barrier to…

And so it begins. A fortnight short of a year, Andy Murray took to Centre Court for a moment he must surely have dreamt about…

Just looking at the titles and achievements of Wimbledon’s top seed, Novak Djokovic, is enough to raise the heart-rate of your average tennis player. The…

Heather Watson insists that she is in confident mood heading into this year’s Wimbledon. The British No1 heads to SW19 after reaching the semi-finals in…

Serena Williams, top seed, world No1, 17-time Grand Slam champion and five times Wimbledon champion, has been working hard on the All England Club’s pristine…