Tennis
January 16th, 2010
16 January 2010
Darren Cahill, the former tennis player turned coach with Lleyton Hewitt and Andre Agassi among his former clients, has tipped Britain's Andy Murray to win the Australian Open, about to start in Melbourne. The Aussie's view is reported here in the Sydney Morning Herald, and he also predicts a decline in the dominance of Roger Federer, and that Juan Martin Del Potro will end 2010 as the world No1.
Of Murray, Cahill said: ''The smart money is always on Federer but I think it's going to be a breakthrough year for Andy Murray. I think he's going to win one of...
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January 12th, 2010
12 January 2010
News that the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) has fined Russia's fined Ekaterina Bychkova $5,000 and banned her for 30 days for not reporting an approach about match-fixing has only been widely dispersed now that John McEnroe has spoken out on the issue. That was a report from Seattle yesterday, and an example of today's coverage can be seen in this report from The Independent.
The approach to the player came to the attention of the authorities via this article in the Wall Street Journal in May 2009. Bychkova had been approached in February 2009 via her blog by a would-be...
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January 1st, 2010
1 January 2010
Lleyton Hewitt gives an interview in the Saturday (2 Jan) edition of the Sydney Morning Herald in which he says: ''I still think there are grand slams still in me."
The 28-year-old Adelaide baseliner, winner of the US Open in 2001, Wimbledon in 2002 and no Slams since, says he is as fit as he's been in a long time and is looking forward to his home Slam, which starts in Melbourne on 18 January.
''It has taken the best guys to beat me, basically every time,'' he tells the SMH of multiple near misses. ''If you keep putting yourself in...
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