Marianne Bevis Archives: 12/2014

2014 was a year of big milestones for many but of lost ground for others. On the plus side, there were two new Grand Slam…

Women’s tennis in 2014 ended, as it has done so often before, at the feet of Serena Williams. She won a sixth US Open title…

It may have taken the likeable Swiss Stan Wawrinka 36 attempts, but on Australia Day 2014, he finally fulfilled his vast potential to win his…

In a year packed with highlights for Novak Djokovic, it is hard to know where to begin. Perhaps not at the very start of 2014…

With just a few days left until Christmas, and tennis winding down—albeit for the most cursory of off-seasons—there is just time to scan back through…

World No1s Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic have been named the 2014 ITF World Champions. Williams takes the women’s accolade for the fifth time, while…

The Czech Republic, with the towering presence of their Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova, won the Fed Cup this year for a remarkable third time in…

The only element of doubt surrounding the winner of the Most Valuable Player Award in this year’s Davis Cup campaign was whether the nod would…

The 10 nominees for the BBC’s spectacular annual celebration of sport made for one of the most diverse shortlists in the history of the competition,…

In the world of elite tennis, six years can seem an eternity. And there have been times when it looked as though the tall, fresh-faced…

It was already a headlining week for Agnieszka Radwanska. For the fourth year in a row, the ever-popular young woman from Poland walked away with…

It was a disappointment of huge proportions for those gathered at the O2 to watch the climax of the ATP year, the deciding match of…

Not for the first time, and probably not for the last, Novak Djokovic finished the tennis season on a high—in more ways than one. He…

Roger Federer had already ensured that 2014 would go down as a rather special year in a career packed to the rafters with rather special…