Marianne Bevis Archives: 10/2015

Hot on the heels of one young, admiring tennis player, the 24-year-old David Goffin, Roger Federer would face another in the shape of 23-year-old American…

For the very many fans of Richard Gasquet, this year was proving to be little short of thrilling. The Frenchman, who burst into the top…

A tennis player knows he’s doing well when he garners praise not just from one of the sport’s all-time greats but also from his own…

There were old familiar faces packing the quarter-final schedule at the Swiss Indoors, and brand new faces. There were reputations to be reinforced and fresh…

Theirs is an old friendship, but the relationship between Roger Federer and Philipp Kohlschreiber on a tennis court had played out as a one-sided affair…

Thursday’s opening match on St Jakobshalle’s unpromising second court—no Hawkeye, and spectators ranged along one side of what would pass for a practice court in…

Ahead of Stan Wawrinka’s latest campaign to thrill the home fans in Basel, the No2 seed knew the draw was tough. In the first round,…

A year ago, give a day or four, a young, quietly-spoken 23-year-old had just completed one of the most emotional matches of his career. David…

Considering that the 29-year-old Frenchman Richard Gasquet has been forced to withdraw from three Masters tournaments so far this year—Miami, Monte Carlo and Montreal—he has…

With six titles from 11 finals—currently up to nine finals in a row—and 15 appearances dating back to 1998, you might expect Roger Federer to…

It may come as a surprise to all but the most stalwart Rafael Nadal fans to discover that, since losing the very first match he…

It has been a thrilling couple of years for Swiss Stan Wawrinka, who emerged from the shadow of his compatriot Roger Federer at the start…

With three tournaments reaching their conclusion on the same Sunday afternoon, there were big points being won and lost in Vienna, Moscow and Stockholm. The…

Roger Federer, the boy from Basel, is back—17 years after his first appearance in the main draw while a still-green teenager. Now, the evergreen 34-year-old…

The annual ATP Awards honour the season’s best players and tournaments in a variety of categories, both for on-court achievements, off-court impact and popularity with…

With the loss of French Open finalist Lucie Safarova to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in her first match in Moscow, followed by Karolina Pliskova to qualifier Anastasija…

With the WTA Finals, the big finale of the women’s tennis circuit, scheduled to begin in a few days’ time, and only two tournaments remaining…

With a final run in Beijing last week and semi-final finish in Shanghai this week, Rafael Nadal has risen two more places in the Race…

When the draw was made in Shanghai a little over a week ago, a 20th meeting between world No1 Novak Djokovic and No15 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga…

Theirs is a rivalry that dates back for almost half their 28-year-old lifetimes, to when Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic were thrown together on the…

Rafael Nadal long ago took command of the leader-board when it comes to tennis’s crown jewels, the Masters series. The dominance of the ‘big four’…