Marianne Bevis Archives: 11/2016

The Davis Cup final of 2016 was a sporting contest with ‘first time’ and ‘never before’ at every turn. The mighty Argentina, one of the…

Mahesh Bhupathi, Founder and Promoter, of the Coca Cola International Premier Tennis League (IPTL), has announced that the third playing of the competition will kick…

For two men born just five days apart, who have grown up alongside one another on the tennis tour from 12-year-old juniors, to turning pro…

In the eyes of most fans around the world, tennis has enjoyed nothing short of a golden era since the turn of the millennium. Roger…

Many feared that record-breaking, record-making Andy Murray would be undone by his antics during this year’s World Tour Finals in London. Not once but twice…

It was perhaps inevitable, as good as written in the stars, that the final contest of the final day of the final ATP event of…

There were many tennis fans, little more than a month ago, who feared that the end-of-season finale at the O2 this year could not live…

The day after debuting duo Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares were confirmed as the year-end No1 doubles team, and two days after reaching the semi-finals…

Since winning Wimbledon in 2014, Novak Djokovic had stood atop the rankings by a near-insurmountable margin over the rest of the field. But since closing…

There can be no doubting the ambition of the big 25-year-old, Milos Raonic. For while he may have set his sights on a Grand Slam…

There was only a quarter of an hour between the announcement that Jamie Murray and partner Bruno Soares had sealed the end-of-year doubles No1 ranking,…

While everything looked rosy in the world of Novak Djokovic and Milos Raonic—both assured of their semi-final places at the season’s finale and with a…

A day after assuring their place in the semi-finals of the ATP World Tour Finals, Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares are also assured of the…

The scenarios as the singles and doubles stars of the ATP World Tour Finals enter their last round-robin matches were complex and various. For the…

In the end-of-year showdown between the best men left standing, the system is different, and very gruelling. Not the standard knock-out draw, where a player…

Andy Murray’s straightforward win over one of the form players of the autumn, Marin Cilic, in his first match at this year’s World Tour Finals…

It is 15 years since the Race to the accolade of tennis’s year-end No1 was decided at its season finale. This year, though, London remains…

Certainly the O2’s welcome of Andy Murray was rapturous as he took to court for the first time as world No1. But he is not…

Precisely seven days after Andy Murray became the first Briton to reach No1 since the ATP rankings began in 1973, he will take to court…

With all the excitement surrounding the world Nos1 and 2—the fight between Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic for the top spot at the World Tour…

The men who make up the doubles teams at the season’s finale every year often talk about the pleasure of playing to packed houses in…