Marianne Bevis Archives: 06/2015

Fans and admirers of Andy Murray have become familiar not just with his great achievements on court but his many charitable activities off court. For…

There is no question that Stan Wawrinka was the man of the moment coming onto the grass of Queen’s Club. Newly up to No4 in…

2002 Wimbledon champion and four-time Queen’s champion Lleyton Hewitt, who at the age of 34 is bowing out of professional tennis this year, has been…

It was hard to decide, ahead of the campaign of 2008 Queen’s champion Rafael Nadal, which way things would go for the Spaniard as he…

There are few grass courts to compare with those offered by the prestigious Queen’s Club. There are even champions who will assert these are the…

Half of Roger Federer’s meetings against old friend Philipp Kohlschreiber had been played on grass. One of them was at Wimbledon, in 2009, and three…

This most historic of tennis venues, the Queen’s Club in the heart of well-heeled Kensington, was about to bring down the curtain on one of…

The problem with being one of the best tennis players in the world, setting records only to break them, stacking up Grand Slam titles and…

Only two men currently on the tennis tour have managed to break the grass ceiling when it comes to ranking the most successful Open era…

It’s a big year for the Aegon Championships, which gets under way on Monday at the famous Queen’s Club in the heart of Kensington. Famous…

With a quarter-final run on the clay of Roland Garros in his rear-view mirror, Roger Federer summed up on Twitter his pleasure at what lay…

With Wimbledon’s announcement that, come 2015, The Championships would move its sacrosanct fortnight back by a week to the end of June, the door opened…

Few can question that Novak Djokovic is the dominant force in men’s tennis. He stands clear of the competition in the rankings by 4,600 points,…

Was a wind of change about to blow through Roland Garros? Could the breath of fresh air that is No13 seed Lucie Safarova depose the…

Just before the outbreak of the Second World War, a British name was being carved with some regularity on tennis’s Major trophies. The name was…

If the pressure on Andy Murray to become the first post-war finalist, let alone the champion, at the French Open was heavy, it was as…

There is no getting away from the fact that the final four women to line up at Roland Garros on a near-perfect afternoon did not…

When nine-time and defending champion Rafael Nadal took to court for perhaps the most highly anticipated Grand Slam quarter-final match of the last decade against…

It has proved to be a something of groundbreaker for the nation with a population approximately the size as Greater London: Switzerland had, for the…

The statistics were already quite staggering for four of the men—‘the big four’—who would all compete for a place in the Roland Garros quarter-finals on…

One of the biggest challenges for any tennis fan is getting to grips with the enormity of what Rafael Nadal has achieved at Roland Garros.…