Miami 2021: Defending champ Ash Barty full of purpose in win over Sabalenka
Ash Barty may not have played a match outside her Australian homeland since February 2020—opting to avoid the stringent quarantine rules of home if she…
Marianne Bevis Archives: 03/2021
Miami Open 2021: Teenager Sinner battles heat and Khachanov for gutsy win
The original 96 men drawn into the Miami Open have been whittled down to 32, and a fascinating pattern has emerged in the process. In…
Miami 2021: Defending champ Barty impresses, but Swiatek downed by Konjuh
A superb line-up of matches featured the cream of women’s tennis—the kind of schedule that would normally pack out a tournament. Yet the Hard Rock…
Miami Open 2021: Former champ Johanna Konta heads into Round 3
The 2021 season has seen the rise and rise of the teenage star in men’s tennis. First and foremost was 19-year-old Yannik Sinner, who won…
Miami 2021: She said, he said – Top seeds Medvedev, Barty and more in their own words
There may be a plethora of top-ranked men missing from this year’s Miami Masters, and just one former champion in the draw—John Isner—but there are…
Miami Open 2021: Djokovic, Williams, Federer absent, but defending champ Barty is back
Just two tournaments in the men’s and women’s calendar boast such big draws and as many seeds. The March double-header of Indian Wells and Miami…
Dubai 2021: Outstanding Aslan Karatsev lifts first tour title to break into top 30
On many fronts, this year’s Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships has experienced change. In a disrupted tennis calendar that has tried to get back to…
Dubai 2021: Harris and Karatsev upset the odds to beat Shapovalov and Rublev
Two ATP500s have paved the way to the first Masters of the year in Miami next week, and the semi-finals in both have brought fresh…
Dubai 2021: Shapovalov continues impressive run to semis, but Sinner outlasted by Karatsev
From a big draw that boasted 16 seeds in the top 32, the quarter-finals were left with just three, and they happened to be the…
Dubai 2021: Shapovalov storms past Hurkacz, and Sinner wins Bautista Agut thriller
Denis Shapovalov, the No3 seed and playing for the first time at the Dubai Duty Free Championships, has taken to the warm, fast conditions of…
Dubai 2021: Dan Evans loses opener, but it’s another win for Mr 500, Andrey Rublev
With 16 seeds rather than the usual eight at this year’s expanded Dubai Duty Free Championships—a reflection of the larger draw being played in the…
Daniil Medvedev becomes first new tennis No2 in 16 years
It has been talked of for years, of course, the question of when a new generation will break up the 17-year ranking dominance of Roger…
Dubai 2021: Thiem seeks winning ways again, as Rublev looks for fifth straight 500 crown
The high-profile Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships continue from one big tournament, the WTA1000 event, straight into one of the most prestigious 500s in the…
Dubai 2021: Garbine Muguruza beats Krejcikova to win eighth career singles title
Garbine Muguruza ended the stand-out run of 63-ranked Barbora Krejcikova to win the prestigious WTA1000 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, beating the Czech 7-6(6), 6-3,…
Doha 2021: Basilashvili beats Bautista Agut to win fourth career title
The two men who contested the Doha title on final Saturday were not perhaps the first choices for the title at the start of the…
Dubai 2021: Third time lucky as Garbine Muguruza reaches third final of year
An outstanding WTA1000 draw in Dubai this week began with 11 women ranked in the top 20, four of them in the top 10. There…
Doha 2021: ‘Happy’ Federer bows out to Basilashvili – and is yet to decide on Dubai
It is perhaps the clearest indication of Roger Federer’s ever-increasing career on a tennis court—the things that have changed through his 22 years on the…
Doha 2021: Roger Federer beats Dan Evans in thriller to win first match in over 13 months
It is a little over 400 days since Roger Federer played his last tournament, and it proved to be a significant one. At the 2020…
Doha 2021: Evans beats Chardy under the watchful eye of his next opponent: Federer
All eyes, all ears, all anticipation have been firmly focused on one man among the 28 who make up the draw of the delayed ATP250…
Dubai 2021: Pliskova, Bencic, Swiatek win openers, but Svitolina and Bertens fall
The oldest player in the draw, 35-year-old Svetlana Kuznetsova, a former world No2 and twice a Major champion, upset No1 seed Elina Svitolina in impressive…
Dubai 2021: Top seed Elena Svitolina goes for third title, but former champ Kvitova eyes rare Doha/Dubai double
The Dubai Duty Free Championships has long been one of the highest quality WTA events on the tour, and this year, under its new WTA1000…