Marianne Bevis Archives: 06/2012

With the grand sweep of London’s grass racing over the horizon, Roger Federer seemed to have found just the right form at just the right…

It may not have been the line-up that most envisaged for semi-final Saturday in the heart of London. Not one of the five top-20 men…

It may not have been the line-up that most envisaged for semi-final Saturday in the heart of London. Not one of the five top-20 men…

They have played one another 28 times and have, still, the most electric rivalry of the last decade. So the Gerry Weber Open—the younger upstart…

OK, so the top seed was gone, so were the fourth, seventh, 11th and more – but those who were left at the halfway stage…

Things may not have gone strictly to play at this year’s Aegon Championships. It lost the first day to rain, it lost its defending champion,…

As if in celebration, the sun came out on the day that the top eight seeds started their grass campaign. Against all the odds and…

All eyes will be on Andy Murray when he opens his campaign for a third Aegon Championship title at the Queen’s Club this week but,…

Andy Murray may have left the clay of Paris a little earlier than hoped, but a tough draw and less-than-perfect physical condition certainly did not…

Against all the odds and all the forecasts, two men took to Paris’s Philippe Chatrier court at their allotted time, on a third Monday at…

And so the rivalry of the decade headed towards perhaps its most telling confrontation. It was here, in 2010, on France’s famous terracotta, that the…

On one side of the sun-drenched Philippe Chatrier court stood a three-time Grand Slam champion, a former and future No1, 6ft 2ins of picture-perfect elegance…

It was Roger Federer’s 50th straight Grand Slam, his 14th straight French Open, his seventh semi-final in Paris as he aimed for his sixth Roland…

In physical stature he may not be the most gifted: 5ft 9in falls rather short for the ideal tennis player. But David Ferrer is a…

Perhaps only the most prescient of tennis experts would have predicted the last four women standing in 2012’s French Open, but two of them in…

Juan Martin Del Potro admitted a drop in intensity cost him a place in the French Open semi-finals after the Argentine was beaten 3-6 6-7…

Sam Stosur is expecting a “tough” French Open semi-final against 21st seed Sara Errani after the Australian secured a 6-4 6-1 victory over Dominika Cibulková.…

Victoria Azarenka plans to take a break ahead of Wimbledon after she was dumped out of the French Open by 15th seed Dominika Cibulkova in…

The draws in Paris did, of course, boast ample measures of French interest and not simply because of the wild card places that are the…