Australian Open 2016: Maria Sharapova won’t look too far ahead, as 600th win beckons
For a woman aged just 28 years old, and one who has faced and overcome so many injury time-outs in her tennis career, Maria Sharapova…
Marianne Bevis Archives: 01/2016
Roger Federer and an Australian rapport: new milestones beckon at 65th Major
Right from the start, Australia and Roger Federer seemed to develop a rapport. It started in 2000, and the first of what is now a…
Australian Open 2016 preview: Can Azarenka reclaim title from Serena Williams?
Will it be history for Serena? Serena Williams: one of the greatest women ever to play tennis, one of the finest female athletes in any…
Viktor Troicki wins Sydney title in second thriller in a week against Grigor Dimitrov
What a difference a week makes. Last weekend, world No28 Grigor Dimitrov came back from a set down against No22 Viktor Troicki in the second…
Australian Open preview: Novak Djokovic pursues history – but so do Federer and Murray
‘Perfect’ Djokovic The chorus of opinion, ahead of the first Grand Slam of 2016, could hardly be more harmonious. Experts, fellow players, the media and…
Sofia and Antwerp join Rio Olympics to host thriving men’s tennis in 2016
The men’s tennis tour is going from strength to strength, judging from the figures in the ATP’s latest press release. During these straitened times, there…
Australian Open 2016: Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams top seeds
There was never any doubt who would stand atop the seedings of the first Grand Slam of the year in Melbourne. By the time 2015…
Andy Murray’s packed 2016 schedule includes record attempt at London’s Queen’s
A week after the newly-promoted ATP500 Aegon Championships at London’s Queen’s Club was awarded the ATP Tournament of the Year Award, it has now confirmed…
Milos Raonic powers past Roger Federer to take eighth title in Brisbane
Brisbane has been good to Roger Federer in the short time they have known each other. On the world No3’s first visit to the beautiful…
Novak Djokovic hands out Doha demolition to Rafael Nadal to win 60th title
It was the dream final, and all the more highly anticipated for coming in the first full week of the new season: Indeed this would…
Borna Coric beats Briton Aljaz Bedene in thriller to reach first ATP final
It may be the only tournament on the men’s tour hosted by India, but the Aircel Chennai Open, on the warm and beautiful East India…
Qatar Open: Doha delivers famed Djokovic and Nadal rivalry for 47th time
Brisbane owns on the biggest tournament in the opening week of the tennis season, combining as it does both ATP and WTA events—that latter a…
It’s Thiem time as ageless Roger Federer takes on ‘Generation ‘90’
It was well into a sultry Brisbane evening before the final-four line-up was settled in the Pat Rafter Arena—and until the end of the last…
Brisbane heaves sigh of relief as Roger Federer embarks on title defence
Just how uneasily the organisers and sponsors of the Brisbane International—the biggest tennis event during the first week of the 2016 season—had slept in their…
Kyrgios, Murray, Watson and Gavrilova serve up thriller at Hopman Cup
The big Brisbane tournament on the eastern Gold Coast of Australia has drawn some of the biggest names in tennis, but before they had completed…
Halep, Sharapova, Williams and Ferrer out, but Britons Bedene and Broady win
In this opening week of the 2016 season, with six events offering the chance to stoke the competitive fires ahead of the first Grand Slam…
Kyle Edmund celebrates Doha win and main-draw place at Australian Open
The upward trajectory of British No3 Kyle Edmund that took him inside the top 100 for the first time last November, and earned him a…
British squash star Laura Massaro launches into 2016 as world No1
Laura Massaro, former World and British Open champion and current US Open and Qatar Open champion, has begun 2016 as the new No1 in women’s…
Can Federer, Murray, Wawrinka, Nadal challenge dominant Djokovic as Australia beckons?
No sooner have presents been unwrapped, turkey eaten and champagne downed than the tennis road-show is on the march towards a new season. For already,…
Williams, Halep, Sharapova, Azarenka launch 2016 campaigns in Australia
Six times, across a dozen years, Serena Williams has been the Australian Open champion, and during that span, only two active players have broken her…