MELBOURNE – It has been a long time since tennis has seen a controversy with as little substance as the one Novak Djokovic generated on Australia’s Channel 9. Tony Jones, the presenter, was neither funny nor clever, but neither was
Add this to the list of controversies and tense episodes in Novak Djokovic’s career: this time, the Serbian refused to give an on-court interview after his fourth-round win at the Australian Open. “The famous journalist who works for Channel 9
MELBOURNE – How many child prodigies have you seen in your lifetime? Six-year-olds who played the piano as only geniuses can, seven-year-olds who solved the most intricate mathematical problems, eight-year-olds who recited the Penal Code from end to end? Or
MELBOURNE – If tennis awarded points for smiles as well as winners and errors, Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic would be in serious trouble. The big contender for the number one spot would be from Argentina and his
MELBOURNE – It wasn’t Brad Gilbert’s ‘winning ugly’ that he needed, because he wouldn’t know how to do it, but Joao Fonseca came up just short of passing a test of maturity in Australia on Thursday: winning by playing badly.
MELBOURNE – Anyone remember wii Sports? Well, anyone who’s forgotten it can recapture the memory these days at the Australian Open, which ‘gamifies’ its players for live matches. It happens every day at the first Grand Slam of the year,
MELBOURNE – On the night the tennis world recognised him as the sport’s newest star, Joao Fonseca was speechless. ‘If I were to travel to Brazil and I wanted to buy your talent, how much money would I need?’ asked
MELBOURNE – Nicolas Jarry and Jannik Sinner’s versions of their doping cases clash in Australia. First it was the Chilean who said: ‘I would have liked the same support he had. Then came the counterattack from the world number one:
MELBOURNE – The pursuit of beauty can lead to tragedy, examples of which abound in history, literature, film or music. Also tennis, where no one embodies tragic beauty better than Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas: playing beautiful no longer works, he discovered
MELBOURNE – Broken rackets, self-harming, and angry outbursts were the reflection of his torment. Deep down, Andrey Rublev was living in hell, and he can now admit it openly: “I saw no reason to live.” The world’s No. 9 player
MELBOURNE – Kei Nishikori admitted Sunday that a year ago he thought about quitting professional tennis. He did so at the press conference following his five-set comeback against Thiago Monteiro in the first round of the Australian Open. Two opposite
MELBOURNE – Chilean Nicolás Jarry believes the ATP and tennis anti-doping authorities were unfair to him and did not treat him the same way they did Italian Jannik Sinner. “I would have liked the same support he got when it
