Milestones on line in Indian Wells for Djokovic, Nadal, Federer, Kerber and more
For the last three years in a row, the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells has been voted the best Masters tournament in the calendar.…
Marianne Bevis Archives: 03/2017
Indian Wells preview: Murray targets first title, former champs Djokovic, Nadal, Federer vie for quarters
As in so many other places and on so many other occasions, the first and biggest Masters title on the tennis tour will be dominated…
Indian Wells preview: Serena Williams exits, Kerber tops draw and rankings, Pliskova leads chase
There can be no doubting that Indian Wells marks a special phase of the tennis calendar. For the men, this is the first and biggest…
Andy Murray sails to first title of year in Dubai, and admits: It’s been a great run
Andy Murray was only 20 when he first played at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships but already he was a star on the rise,…
Dubai 2017: Andy Murray sets up final against old adversary Fernando Verdasco
The semi-final line-up at the Dubai Duty Free Championships was perhaps not the one many had anticipated a week ago. The world No1 Andy Murray…
400 will have to wait, but ‘sad’ is not in Philipp Kohlschreiber’s vocabulary
In the hazy, hot, mid-morning of Thursday in Dubai, it seemed as though little could match the drama of the night before. Roger Federer losing…
Dubai 2017: Andy Murray saves seven match points to win thriller against Kohlschreiber
There was no doubting that world No1 Andy Murray had become the hot favourite to add his name to a Dubai honours roll dominated by…
Dubai 2017: Fernando Verdasco beats Gael Monfils to continue dream run to semis
The tournament may be celebrating its 25th anniversary, but the tennis gods have not been entirely kind to the Dubai Duty Free Championships this week.…
Roger Federer: Trying to explain the unexplainable in Dubai
It’s the morning after the night before, the night when Roger Federer, a seven-time Dubai champion and winner here of 48 matches for just five…
Dubai 2017: Qualifier Donskoy saves three match points to down Roger Federer
This was probably not the challenge that many expected the seven-time Dubai champion Roger Federer to face on a cool, late, second-round evening. The No3…
Dubai 2017: Andy Murray storms past Guillermo Garcia-Lopez into quarter-finals
Andy Murray had vivid memories of playing his second-round opponent, Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, even though it was five years ago. It was the spring when he…
Federer, Kohlschreiber, Verdasco and more are 30 and thriving in Dubai
It was a throw-away line from the 2009 US Open champion, Juan Martin del Potro, after he beat the No89 in the world, the fast-rising…