Marianne Bevis Archives: 06/2013

The weather had been doing it all week—with the exception of a very windy but refreshingly sunny Friday—and it did it once again on semi-final…

While the Aegon Championship has been whittling down its 56-man draw to four via rain delays, double-duty matches and various seeds facing and falling to…

For a man who a month ago was forced to retire with lower back problems in the second round at the Rome Masters, who hastily…

So finally, the sun put in an appearance at Queen’s Club. The wind whipped up only white clouds and the air turned dry and warm:…

The leaden clouds scudded over the brilliant green courts of Queen’s Club throughout a packed Thursday schedule, but only once—and then for just five minutes—did…

Wednesday may have started early, and the first two matches on Centre Court may have rocketed through the schedule to complete in straights sets in…

As the world of tennis glides seamlessly from orange to green, from grit to grass, from its clay Grand Slam to its turf Grand Slam,…

On another day of grey skies and cool winds, Queen’s was determined to make space for four-time champion Lleyton Hewitt after his match against Grigor…

With leaden skies threatening to put a dampener on the already lush and sappy grass of Queen’s Club, there were more than a few fingers…

Laura Robson, Heather Watson and Jo Konta, the top three Britons in the women’s tennis rankings, will all contest third-round places in one of the…

The final day of the Aegon Championships at Queen’s Club will climax this year not just with two title matches, for the doubles and singles…

The ATP World Tour Finals is the one big tournament that Rafael Nadal has yet to win, but following his record eighth French Open title…

The skies may be grey, the sun rather too slow to make an appearance, but it is June, and tennis is making its most dramatic…

The size of the Goliath that Roland Garros’s David—Ferrer, that is—had to take on in his first ever Grand Slam was, in a word, huge.…

If Maria Sharapova was to defend her French Open title, she would have to find something very special indeed. In arch-rival—indeed her nemesis—Serena Williams, she…

David Ferrer admits he will need to produce his best tennis to have any chance of beating seven-time champion Rafael Nadal in the French Open…

It was a tough act to follow for the second pair of semi-finalists at Roland Garros, but on a cooling, shadow-filled evening on Philipp Chatrier,…

For the organisers of the French Open, men’s semi-final day must have been something of a headache when it came to scheduling. At the start…

After a semi-final that brought together two such closely-matched women—Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka were separated by one place in the rankings, a couple of…

There were, in the end, few surprises about the last four standing in the women’s French Open semi-finals. Each match contained a former Roland Garros…

On one side of the net stood a Grand Slam champion who knew how it felt to be No1 in the world. He was, in…