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This week Canada scored its first goal in World Cup history in Qatar and won its first ever Davis Cup in tennis in Malaga. The World Cup...
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lydiajulian1
- Nov 1
- 6 min
Transitions- all aboard?
Was it only eighteen months ago that the world was living in a state of Covid anxiety without a war in Ukraine, England’s Queen was...
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lydiajulian1
- Oct 12
- 7 min
Sixty years on-from the Cuban missile crisis to a crisis of faith
In one of the final scenes of the movie, The Queen, her late majesty is seen encouraging Tony Blair to conduct their weekly audience...
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lydiajulian1
- Sep 12
- 10 min
Changes of crowns and games of thrones across the Atlantic
Well, the last thing I should have thought was that the 2022 US Open might be another predictable chapter in the game’s history. Too many...
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lydiajulian1
- Aug 25
- 8 min
The US Open is about to start and when it closes much that is grand will be gone...
Can you have two epiphanies in a week when writing about politics and tennis? As we prepare for the beginning of the final Grand Slam of...
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lydiajulian1
- Jul 21
- 6 min
Wimbledon Wrap!
It’s all in the timing. Maybe we have always known that. Imagine if Wimbledon had been held this week. Yesterday, London recorded its...
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lydiajulian1
- Jul 8
- 9 min
"As seeds are sown and blown so they shall reap"
Last year I watched Ash Barty win the Wimbledon Ladies’ title in a motel room in Wagga Wagga. This year I shall be watching the Ladies’...
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lydiajulian1
- Jun 27
- 9 min
We focus on Centre Court, but everywhere else the centre seems hard to find!
Wimbledon starts tonight. All eyes of tennis fans will turn to its famous Centre Court whose flawless grass surface, only played on in...
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lydiajulian1
- Jun 7
- 8 min
A Platinum Monarch, a new PM, painful Post-Mortems in America and Parisian tennis matches
Few probably realise that the French Open has provided Central America with its first ever Grand Slam champion. Marcelo Arevalo from El...
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lydiajulian1
- May 22
- 8 min
So, what do we now know?
When, in a fortnight’s time, the finals of the French Open are played the respective champions will be awarded their trophies because...
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lydiajulian1
- May 19
- 6 min
Forty eight hours to go!
Some days you remember more than others. 21st August 1983 is one of those days. In peaceful, democratic Australia, the newly elected...
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lydiajulian1
- May 8
- 7 min
Less than a fortnight to go and it's not a game- this is our future!
With less than two weeks until polling day in Australia, we can be more certain about events after the election than its outcome. We know...
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lydiajulian1
- Apr 13
- 11 min
Nous tous! Australia and France go to the polls and then we focus on Roland Garros
The political terms left and right wing were coined when what became known as the Tennis Court oath was taken during the French...
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lydiajulian1
- Feb 2
- 9 min
The Greatest Open-Australian-of all Time?
“Where there is discord, may we bring harmony”. So said Margaret Thatcher, quoting St. Francis of Assisi, upon entering No. 10 Downing...
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lydiajulian1
- Jan 12
- 6 min
Guess who's coming to the tennis?
The question is, would the character played by the much loved and recently departed Sidney Poitier in his 1963 movie be more welcome to...
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lydiajulian1
- Jan 6
- 5 min
Djokovic v the World: no vaccination, a contested exemption, a denied visa and a court appeal!
It just keep’s happening! A new year and the overlap of politics, world affairs and Grand Slam tennis continues. One of my holiday reads...
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lydiajulian1
- Jan 1, 2022
- 6 min
Tremors!
It says something about the potent ubiquity of Covid-19 that it continues for most to be the only topic in town as we begin the third...
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lydiajulian1
- Nov 29, 2021
- 6 min
Two end of year playoffs, a summit in Glasgow and a ‘sext’ for afters…
So, the tennis year is officially over, well apart from the Davis Cup which has become such a desiccated version of its one great self,...
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lydiajulian1
- Oct 1, 2021
- 9 min
Is there honour amongst our governors anymore? Is there any hope of buying a home?
It is just over a fortnight since the end of the US Open. Former English Prime Minister Harold Wilson famously quipped that “a week is a...
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lydiajulian1
- Sep 13, 2021
- 10 min
The Empire strikes back, destiny is denied, but there are still golden slams!
What a 24 hours it has been in sport! Australia’s Rugby team after been humiliated by the All Blacks in recent weeks beat World Cup...
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