Marianne Bevis Archives: 06/2015

Spare a thought for those at the All England Club who have the job of deciding the schedule on a day like this first Tuesday.…

Andy Murray may be a former champion at his home Grand Slam, may have won Olympic gold on the same famed Wimbledon Centre Court and…

While the best woman in the tennis world was working her way back from an early challenge on Court 1 to take a straight-sets opening…

It was an unexpected admission at this stage in her remarkable career. Serena Williams revealed after winning the French Open that she was not a…

To the casual observer, it could have been a regular chat at the end of a regular club knock-about between some folk in regular tennis…

There may be 19 players on the women’s tennis stage who have reached a Grand Slam final, but there is no doubting the queen of…

Whatever prayers the defending champion Novak Djokovic offered up to the Wimbledon gods ahead of Friday’s draw, they worked. The world No1 and top seed…

The Wimbledon men’s seedings were released on Wednesday, and it’s fair to say there were not too many surprises. The two who contested last year’s…

Novak Djokovic has made his first—and only—scheduled stop on the road to his Wimbledon title defence on the refined lawns of rural Stoke Park. The…

Petra Kvitova may be the defending champion at Wimbledon, the Grand Slam that brings out the very best in the tall left-handed Czech, but she…

The seedings for the men’s draw of the Wimbledon Championships were announced today and, despite the unique adjustments that the only grass Major makes to…

The oh-so-sweet grass-court season may be a week longer this year, may have squeezed in an extra tournament to help the difficult transition from the…

There were times, in Roger Federer’s first match in defence of his Halle title, that it looked as though he may not make it even…

It was the toughest of assignments for Andy Murray. Three-time champion he may be on London’s finest grass, and he may have the full weight…

Andy Murray may have entered the Aegon Championships this year as the top seed and ranked No3 in the world, may have won the title…

The quietly-spoken South African Kevin Anderson continued to make plenty of noise with his tennis and make his best-ever grass-court run with victory over No7…

The stars were all aligned, it seemed, for Halle’s favourite son, Roger Federer, to make more history on the grass of this newly-promoted 500 tournament.…

It may not have been quite the line-up that the seedings predicted at the start of the Aegon Championships. Just three seeds would contest a…

One statistic was soon rebounding around Queen’s Club on the last day of second-round matches at the Aegon Championships. In the match between No8 seed…

Some things simply improve with age, and a certain Feliciano Lopez has done just that. He may be just one among an armada of eight…

Age, it seems, is finding it harder to wither tennis players these days. Everywhere you look, there are over-30s not just playing in the main…