Marianne Bevis Archives: 07/2017

After more than a year of twists and turns, ups and downs, big wins and surprise losses, the 12-time Major champion, Novak Djokovic, has announced…

Davis Cup matches will be reduced to best-of-three sets if reforms the International Tennis Federation board of directors are approved next month. The vote will…

It has been hard to mention the name of Roger Federer in the last three weeks or so without the number eight following soon after.…

They may never have played each other in a title match before, the 18-time Major champion Roger Federer and one-time Major champion Marin Cilic. And…

The British public knows it’s a special occasion when the Radio 4 news headlines at 8am on a Sunday morning make reference to a tennis…

It was, of course, just the latest instalment in a storyline that has been unfolding for two decades. For it was back in 1999 that…

For the first time in 14 years, none of the semi-finalists in a Major would be ranked in the top four. That was just one…

When Roger Federer referred to the other three men left in the semi-finals of this year’s Wimbledon, he could not resist talking about their formidable…

The women’s championship at this year’s Wimbledon has, as so often before, become more dramatic with each passing round. Even when the draw was made…

It has become so commonplace as to be routine, yet the stacking up of Roger Federer’s records is anything but routine. Just by arriving to…

The quarter-final line-up in the men’s draw certainly posed many questions, key among them being how the four Major champions, three of them Wimbledon champions,…

Where to begin on a women’s quarter-final day that boasted four of the eight players have already won a Major title? Where the oldest woman…

The superlatives when it comes to Venus Williams, and especially when it comes to Williams at Wimbledon, just keep coming. At 37 years old, the…

“The last injury I had was probably the best thing that ever happened to me.” So said the gently-spoken big man from Luxembourg, Gilles Muller,…

Such is the mental control that Johanna Konta maintains over her tennis life these days—and she famously turned to a sports psychologist a few years…

It has been the watchword almost since the start of this fascinating women’s draw at the Wimbledon Championships. Ask a dozen people who would win…

A still-baking Wimbledon Championship gears up for its busiest and most thrilling day, Manic Monday. No other Major enjoys a no-match Middle Sunday to allow…

A still-baking Wimbledon Championship gears up for its busiest and most thrilling day, Manic Monday. No other Major enjoys a recuperative Middle Sunday to allow…

It is hard to say what the odds were that, only a fortnight or so after the brothers Zverev each faced their idol Roger Federer…

It is not a position that Agnieszka Radwanska has been too used to, a ranking outside the top eight seeds at a Major tournament. Yet…

Twelve months ago, Novak Djokovic led the rankings by a country mile, had been at the top for almost two and a half years, and…