Marianne Bevis Archives: 02/2015

It has become something of a ritual at the Dubai Duty Free Championships. By the time one of the most competitive draws on the ATP…

It’s safe to say that Tomas Berdych had not enjoyed the greatest good fortune in his last few years in Dubai. He had not fallen…

The semi-finals of this year’s Dubai Duty Free Championships certainly had a familiar look. Not since 2003, the year that Roger Federer won the first…

It has always been hard to ignore Roger Federer. Count the records, admire the style, respect the professionalism, enjoy the approachability, but more than anything…

All four of the top four seeds were playing on quarter-finals day in Dubai. And while each match had its own appeal, the popcorn line-up…

Quarter-final day at the Dubai Duty Free Championships, basking in the glow of being voted the best 500 tournament on the tour, could also bask…

Three weeks after the announcement of one of tennis’s most hoped-for changes of heart—Serena Williams returning to Indian Wells after a 14-year absence—the biggest tournament…

The combined efforts of Andrey Golubev and Fernando Verdasco had thus far failed to score a single win over their second-round opponents, the four-time champion…

Andy Murray and Tomas Berdych, both former finalists in the prestigious Dubai Duty Free tournament and the number three and four seeds respectively this week,…

The auspices were never great for the young and still improving Canadian Vasek Pospisil when he was drawn to play the four-time Dubai champion Novak…

Andy Murray must feel as though a certain big man from Luxembourg has been following him. A fortnight ago in Rotterdam, he was teamed up…

For Tomas Berdych in Dubai, it has been a case of ‘so near yet so far’. For the last two years, he has been the…

It is one of the longest-running tennis rivalries on the tour, though in truth, ‘rivalry’ may not be the most apt word for the relationship…

Hot on the heels of the first Grand Slam of the year, February brings one of the most packed months on the men’s tour. No…

There are not many locations on the tour more impressive than the Dubai Duty Free, the tour’s most lucrative ATP 500. The skyline of this…

Someone in Andy Murray’s shoes who had a bit of a persecution complex might, by now, be starting to feel a touch paranoid. For as…

Roger Federer had, of course, every reason to feel in fine fettle when he strolled across the white marble lounge atop the Dubai Duty Free’s…

Ten of the last dozen titles at the prestigious Dubai Duty Free Championships have been won by just two men: Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer.…

Top seed Simona Halep, for the second match in a row, survived a three-set test to reach the final of the prestigious Premier Dubai Duty…

February for Rafael Nadal must feel like sinking onto a feather mattress after the rigours of the hot, hard tournaments that herald the new tennis…

Roger Federer’s fans have waited patiently for news of his 2015 schedule. For after an intense—and highly rewarding—close to 2014, he planned to ring the…