Marianne Bevis Archives: 05/2017

It had been on the cards since Dominic Thiem’s teenage years, with his first main-tour quarter-finals in 2013—and he reached his first final the very…

They don’t come much bigger than the Madrid Mutua Open on the women’s tennis circuit: Only the four Majors out-rank the four Premier Mandatories, of…

This semi-final was a record-breaker before it even began. Two of the best players ever to lift a tennis racket, 14-time Major champion Rafael Nadal…

The spread of seeds and non-seeds in the quarter-finals of the Mutua Madrid Open was already bottom heavy. All three unseeded players joined No8 seed…

As tennis pundits will tell you before the start of each of Masters tournament, ‘the big four’ continues to be alive and kicking many years…

By the time that world No5 and Spanish No1 Rafael Nadal took to court at the end of a cool, stormy, and very un-Spanish day…

It would be easy to focus on the handful of lost seeds from the men’s draw this week at the Mutua Madrid Open. Few, for…

The wave of Spaniards that filled 11 of the 56 places in the men’s draw at the Mutua Madrid Open this week had, bit by…

If the queues snaking from the entrance to the Caja Magica at midday were anything to go by, there was something special going on in…

At every turn in the draw at this year’s Mutua Madrid Open, there are Spaniards. And it is not because the home tournament has handed…

As Johanna Konta arrived in Madrid for one of the biggest tournaments in the women’s tennis calendar, she had just reached another milestone in her…

It was a day of mixed fortunes for the top two seeds in the lucrative and prestigious Mutua Madrid Open, one of only four Premier…

He may not be the top seed, nor even among the top three seeds at the Mutua Madrid Masters this week, but Rafael Nadal is…

For a man who won 31 titles and reached 18 more finals through his first decade on the professional tour without so much as making…

The last time former champion and wild card Maria Sharapova played the prestigious Mutua Madrid Open, back in 2015, she reached the semi-finals, having won…

There is no denying that Novak Djokovic’s announcement ahead of the Mutua Madrid Open that he and his team of a decade had decided to…

There were certainly some tough and intriguing first-round matches thrown up by the Mutua Madrid Open draw, which got under way at the towering Magic…

As the tour heads into the demanding double-header of the Madrid and Rome Masters this year, the men’s line-up differs very little from this exact…

These are, it must be said, interesting times for the women’s tennis tour, and all the more so at the Madrid Premier this week, where…

If Novak Djokovic’s parting of the ways with his coach of three years, Boris Becker, back in December did not come as a complete bolt…

The Championships at Wimbledon this summer will once again set a record for prize money, it was announced at the All England Club’s annual spring…