Marianne Bevis Archives: 06/2014

Roger Federer seems always to be the calm eye amid the storm that accompanies the start of any Grand Slam tournament, and especially so at…

Rafael Nadal insists that he has no extra motivation ahead of Wimbledon following Spain’s dismal exit from the World Cup. The defending champions were knocked…

Top seed Novak Djokovic has been dealt a tricky hand if he is to equal or better his 2013 run at the All England Club.…

The All England Club has released the seedings for The Championships that begin on Monday next and, as always when it comes to Wimbledon, the…

The tennis of Ernests Gulbis stood out from the first. It was perhaps around 2007 that followers of this sport began to sit up and…

With the grass-court season just one week old, the shortest and, for many, the sweetest swing of the tennis year has seen two starry names…

Tommy Haas’ management company has revealed that the popular 36-year-old former world No2 is to undergo urgent surgery on his right shoulder. Owner of 15…

It was not perhaps the final that many had anticipated at the Aegon Championships, but it would guarantee one thing: a new name on one…

It was exactly a year ago that Andy Murray took to Queen’s Club’s Centre Court to play an exhibition match for the Royal Marsden Cancer…

The weather forecast for semi-final Saturday was wonderful: 21 degrees, modest humidity, gentle breezes. In fact, just about perfect after a week during which barely…

For lovers of the art of grass-court tennis, the form of the game that goes back, literally, to its roots, the line-up for this year’s…

With all four of the previous champions at the Queen’s Club failing to reach the quarter-finals of the Aegon Championships, the door was opened for…

Former world No1 and two-time Australian Open champion, Victoria Azarenka, will return to competitive tennis next week after more than three months away from the…

Andy Murray has been the centre of attention since he arrived at Queen’s Club to begin the defence of his Aegon Championship title. He brought…

It was a surprising thing for Roger Federer to say when he arrived in the small, rural town of Halle, host to the Gerry Weber…

Of course the buzz at Queen’s is all about Andy Murray. Here is a three-time Aegon Championships titlist, the reigning Wimbledon and Olympic champion, playing…

The best efforts of the British duo James Ward and Dan Evans were always likely to fall a little short of what was needed to…

Looking at the line-up of players competing in the quiet, rural town of Halle in Germany and within the confines of the historic Queen’s Club…

While British No1 and world No5 Andy Murray has, not surprisingly, been the one making headlines at Queen’s Club ahead of his Aegon Championship title…

For Andy Murray, this first week on summer’s grass, with the red dirt of Roland Garros a receding memory, must feel like sinking into a…

In an era of great rivalries between the four men who have dominated the rankings, Grand Slams and the elite tier of the tour—Rafael Nadal,…