Marianne Bevis Archives: 04/2018

Nothing to lose and everything to gain: that was how the beaming Greek teenager, Stefanos Tsitsipas, who faced the biggest test that tennis has to…

The Lawn Tennis Association has announced that former British tennis professionals Tim Henman, Jamie Delgado, and Sam Smith are to form a new Performance Advisory…

The prestigious London Queen’s Club, which will host the newly-titled Fever-Tree Championships in June, is drawing up an appropriately prestigious list of competitors as the…

It has been all about Rafael Nadal, as the giant of clay-court tennis returned to the court that now bears his name at the historic…

When Roger Federer talked to a handful of the press after regaining the No1 ranking in February, his plans for the coming months were just…

It was another extraordinary achievement in a tennis career already packed to the gunnels with extraordinary achievements. When Rafael Nadal capped his 2017 clay season…

The host nation Japan narrowly defeated the GB Fed Cup team 3-2 to seal promotion to the World Group II in 2019. Going into the…

A hot Friday, and the schedule started bright and early in Monte-Carlo with what promised to be one of the quarter-finals of the day between…

The GB Fed Cup Team to face Japan in this weekend’s Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group II Play-Off has been drawn today. The…

It was one of those days where almost every singles match deserved to revel in the sunshine of Court Rainier III as the last 16…

There were certainly a few upsets by the end of a sunny Wednesday in picturesque Monte-Carlo as the draw whittled down to the third round.…

With the long clay season already under way, it is no surprise that many of the big Fed Cup ties in a week’s time will…

It could become one of the rivalries of the next decade, that between two of the most exciting players striding into the tennis spotlight: Denis…

It is one of the oldest and most glamorous tennis venues in the calendar—more than 100 years and counting. And the self-styled “Gem of the…

By the time the Davis Cup World Group play-offs take to court around the globe in September, the players and their fans will know whether…

The first quarter of 2018 is done and dusted, a quarter during which tennis has been dominated by the punishing hard courts and temperatures of…

One of squash’s big men, in stature—he is 6ft 3ins and 88kgs—and in popularity, James Willstrop, has touched Commonwealth gold at last. At last, because…

The headlines, before and during the Davis Cup quarter-finals this weekend, were all about world No1 Rafael Nadal, and the spotlight was firmly focused on…

This may end up being the last Davis Cup played in this familiar format, at this time of the year, and with that unique home…

Novak Djokovic’s coaching set-up, which seems to have been in a state of flux ever since a chronic elbow injury began to take a toll…

It is not mentioned in the previews to this week’s Davis Cup quarter-finals by its website editors, but in the month or so since the…