Marianne Bevis Archives: 10/2018

• Rafael Nadal returned to No1 in August 2017, more than three years after previous residency • Roger Federer became oldest man to reach No1 this…

• Nadal and Djokovic must win one match more than the other to claim No1 • Roger Federer could win his 100th title after reaching…

He may have reached two Major finals in the last 18 months, but the 32-year-old Kevin Anderson capped his best ever season in Austria this…

Roger Federer was not understating things when he said, before he played his first match in home-town Basel: “It’s been a wonderful tournament for me.”…

None of the top four players in the draw even made it the semi-finals of the biggest WTA event of the year, the jewel in…

It proved to be an extraordinary Saturday in Basel for the 28-year-old Romanian Marius Copil. Ranked 93 in the world, he had made just one…

Neither woman may have come into Singapore as favourites for the biggest WTA title of the year, but world No6 Sloane Stephens and No7 Elina…

As the round-robin stages of the BNP Paribas WTA Finals in Singapore reached their conclusion, the form book and rankings was thrown out the window.…

Last week saw the number of debut titlists for 2018 rise to 13, as 20-year-old Stefanos Tsitsipas won his first in Stockholm, and Kyle Edmund…

• Julia Goerges returns to defend title • Only two of top dozen qualifiers to miss tournament: Serena Williams and Jelena Ostapenko • Singles wildcard for Zhang Shuai…

Eight-time champion Roger Federer has great memories of the city of his birth: “It’s been a wonderful tournament for me.” The evolution of Roger Federer’s…

In a season littered by firsts, the top-ranked British player, Kyle Edmund, notched up another in Antwerp a week ago. At one of the last…

It was a truly notable final that brought down the curtain on the regular WTA calendar at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow this year. On…

• Barbora Krejcikova/Katerina Siniakova win Doubles Team of the Year • Kiki Bertens, Aryna Sabalenka and Elina Svitolina also honoured The Women’s Tennis Association has revealed…

As the closing fortnight of the women’s tennis season heads to its finale, the best eight players in the world—plus two alternates—have taken up residence…

This time last year, the end-of-year No1 ranking was a toss-up between the two most prolific winners of ATP Awards since they were introduced in…

· Pliskova makes third straight appearance at WTA Finals, Svitolina her second · Kiki Bertens first alternate after loss in Moscow’s Kremlin Cup · Simona…

The Women’s Tennis Association has announced that Sloane Stephens has qualified for the 2018 BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore presented by SC Global after it…

Novak Djokovic had looked like the favourite to win the Rolex Shanghai Masters a week ago, and so it proved to be. First, there was…

The inexorable rise of former world No1 Novak Djokovic since elbow injury forced him down to No22 in the ranks in May has continued in…

Alexander Zverev sealed his place at the Nitto ATP Finals in London next month by reaching the semi-finals of the Shanghai Masters with a victory…