Marianne Bevis Archives: 11/2015

With Novak Djokovic, the current world No1 and the best in the world by a country mile in 2015, on and off court in little…

What better way could there be to start the ‘Final Showdown’, the tournament where the best eight tennis players in the world contest the unofficial…

David Ferrer, one of tennis’s most consistently high-achieving players, as well as one of its most respected, passed two new milestones in a single match…

Roger Federer may not be the world number one by a considerable points margin. He does not even arrive in London for this year’s ATP…

It is 45 years since the first season finale began what has become the unofficial ‘fifth Grand Slam’ of the tennis season. And that very…

As the elite singles and doubles players in the world gather in London to play out the tennis tour’s finale, the scores are in for…

The world No1, Novak Djokovic, has done it before, of course, with his ground-breaking season of 2011: 10 titles that included three Grand Slams and…

Two former champions lined up in the final four to contest the last Masters 1000 of the year in Paris Bercy. In the bottom half,…

Richard Gasquet was proving to be something like a man reborn during 2015. The Frenchman may have been forced to withdraw from three Masters tournaments…

Yes, it’s a cliche, but what a difference a day makes—especially in the final Masters tournament of the year in Paris Bercy. The quality of…

For a Masters tournament that comes right at the end of the tennis season, when exhausted bodies and brains want nothing more than to take…

2015 is proving to be something of a show-stopper all round for the new-look BNP Paribas Masters, the last but certainly not the least Masters…

Once upon a time, the rivalry between the two superstars of men’s tennis, 17-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer and 14-time Grand Slam champion, Rafael…