Marianne Bevis Archives: 03/2017

The final two quarter-finals at the Miami Masters featured a pair of old adversaries and a pair of new ones. Later, it would be the…

There really is no getting away from it: 2017 has, thus far, been rather special for tennis players of a certain age. At the Australian…

For Stan Wawrinka, 2017 was already proving to be a good year. He was a solid No3 in the rankings and also No3 in the…

As world No1 Andy Murray continues to rehab the elbow injury that took him out of the Miami Masters in Florida this week, it will…

It had been a long time coming, this 21st meeting between friends and rivals Roger Federer and Juan Martin del Potro. As their story unfolded…

By any measure, what 14-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal has achieved since playing his first main-tour tennis match is exceptional. The Spaniard yesterday notched…

The ‘sunshine double’ is as upbeat and cheerful a moniker as the biggest non-Grand Slams in tennis could wish for. Yet the name disguises what,…

If Indian Wells, the other half of the mighty ‘sunshine double’ that packs March, felt itself unfortunate in losing its top two seeds—No1 Andy Murray…

Things were clear cut from the start as the tour headed to Miami for the second half of one of the toughest months in the…

Perhaps it was an auspicious sign. The only man not named Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal or Novak Djokovic to win the most prestigious Masters tournament…

So 92 of the men who began the first and biggest Masters of the year in Indian Wells have been and gone, leaving just four…

World No1 Andy Murray has announced his withdrawal from next week’s Miami Masters, citing an elbow injury. In a statement, he said: “Sadly, due to…

It was one of the most highly anticipated matches of the week, the quarter-final showdown between Roger Federer and Nick Kyrgios at the Indian Wells…

The early loss of world No1 Andy Murray in his opener was a shock for the biggest, brightest and probably hottest Masters tournament of the…

Not since the very start of their 35-match rivalry had former Indian Wells champions Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal met before the quarter-finals of a…

As Novak Djokovic, the defending and five time Indian Wells champion, and with a record 30 Masters titles to his name, took to centre court…

On the final day of this year’s Australia Open, one of the signature rivalries in men’s tennis was played out for the 35th time, the…

With all due respect to the other 90 or so men in the Indian Wells draw, the tournament had been building towards this day from…

It may have dropped like a bombshell, the slotting of all three former Indian Wells champions into the same quarter. And as if Novak Djokovic,…

In truth, the No4 seed Kei Nishikori had taken a strange path from his fourth-round exit at the Australian Open to the first and biggest…

If ever the oft-repeated mantra of the tennis player—never look beyond the next match—was writ large over a draw, it was borne out by Andy…