Melbourne Summer Series launches record week of tennis with six tournaments
Adelaide certainly hinted at what was to come in Australia, as the top three men and women—along with the active player who owns the most…
Marianne Bevis Archives: 01/2021
World’s top six tennis stars emerge from lockdown to entertain Adelaide crowds
It was a great plan with great foresight, to fly the world’s biggest tennis names and their teams into Adelaide rather than Melbourne. It stretched…
Australian Open 2021: Melbourne schedule revised to help locked-down players
The already new-look start to the Australian Open, which saw the first Major of the year delayed by three weeks and a swathe of new…
ATP Cup 2021: Fewer teams, same quality; Top four Djokovic, Nadal, Thiem, Medvedev headline
The ATP Cup may have had its wings clipped by a global pandemic, with 24 teams becoming 12. It may have been forced to focus…
Australian Open 2021: Between a rock and a hard place
As Robert Burns put it, though in a rather broader dialect in 1785, “The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” Tennis…
Sabalenka picks up where she left off – her 15th win and third straight title – as tennis returns
Just three women’s tournaments have been played since the French Open at the start of October last year, and with the completion of the first…
Djokovic, Nadal, Williams, Osaka, Halep to take in Adelaide exho en route to Melbourne
The world’s top three men—Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Dominic Thiem—and tennis’s top women—Nos 2 and 3 Simona Halep and Naomi Osaka and No11 Serena…
Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal headline ATP Cup ahead of Australian Open
The 2021 tennis action may have got under way thousands of miles away—in Delray Beach and Antalya—but many eyes are already firmly focused on Melbourne,…