Marianne Bevis Archives: 07/2021

Belinda Bencic sealed the ultimate Olympic accolade via one of the toughest routes in the draw to claim the gold medal, beating Marketa Vondrousova, 7-5,…

In the end, perhaps there were just too many matches in Djokovic’s body to come face to face with his first top-five player in the…

Novak Djokovic doled out a hammer blow to Japan’s hopes in the men’s singles with a 6-2, 6-0 defeat of Kei Nishikori. It took the…

And still the big names continued to fall at the Ariake Tennis Arena in Tokyo, but few of them as big as the face of…

Things may have gone according to rankings in the men’s singles matches played on Day 3 in Tokyo—though there were only eight of them—but the…

Perhaps it was written in the stars in Tokyo, but world No2 Naomi Osaka, the flame bearer and face of these Olympic Games, made a…

Novak Djokovic, who has been front and centre in social media streams at the Tokyo Olympic Village, passed his first test on the road to…

It is a rare and highly prized sporting accolade, and because the opportunity to win Olympic gold only comes around every four years, the chance…

As surely as night followed day, world No1 Novak Djokovic had worked his way through six opponents to reach his 30th Major final, and with…

The 128 had become two, and while previous Wimbledon champions fell out of contention, and all but one previous Major champion went the same way,…

What, then, could the former Wimbledon junior champion, 22-year-old Denis Shapovalov, do against the five-time senior Wimbledon champion and world No1, Novak Djokovic? On paper,…

It was predictable and it was unexpected, the semi-final line-up in the men’s Wimbledon draw. It was eminently predictable that the world No1 Novak Djokovic…

Much has been made in the last couple of years about the breadth and depth of quality in women’s tennis. The last nine Majors, dating…

A month ago, there were certainly doubts surrounding the expectations that always follow Roger Federer to Wimbledon. For the eight-time champion, and runner-up here to…

Down to the last eight, then, and two names jumped off the draw sheet: They had been here many times before. In the bottom half,…

It is always a tough turn-around for the women who make it through to the last eight at Wimbledon. For they all know that they…

Sixteen men, ranging in age from the oldest in the draw, the almost-40 Roger Federer, to the youngest survivors, the 20-year-olds Sebastian Korda and Felix…

It is a day like no other in tennis, the result of an old tradition of no play on middle Sunday. Grass, the original and…

Just three unseeded men are among the 16 who will aim to reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals on ‘Manic Monday’, and only four unseeded women. The…

The home nation had a bumper crop of Britons in the singles draws for the return to Wimbledon after two years away. By the third…

Andy Murray may have drawn the British sporting headlines even before Wimbledon got underway this year. Sir Andy is, after all, as close to tennis…