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lydiajulian1
- Sep 14
- 7 min
"Two dozen to go for one and one to start for another"
“Speaking of Serena, America’s Coco Gauff, fresh from an indifferent summer won the Women’s title at Cincinnati. Often touted as...
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lydiajulian1
- Aug 23
- 7 min
The sweltering September slam awaits
The forthcoming first day of September in the southern hemisphere is heralded as the first day of spring, whilst for Americans it is the...
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lydiajulian1
- Jun 26
- 6 min
Whenever I gaze at Centre Court, I am in paradise! (apologies to The Kinks)
So, another Wimbledon is about to begin! How it can be two years since Roger Federer played his final match on Centre Court, let alone...
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lydiajulian1
- Apr 24
- 6 min
Giants, fallen and falling...
We are told there are very few certainties except the oft quipped duo of death and taxes. For what seems the living memory of most the...
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lydiajulian1
- Apr 1
- 7 min
To say Yes or No, that is the question, but we have many a SUBtext to consider!
Halley’s comet have many across our stars once every 76 years. Its next scheduled appearance will be in 2061. Down here on earth there...
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lydiajulian1
- Mar 8
- 5 min
And the hits keep coming...
After the self-serving outpourings of Harry and Meghan and Novak Djokovic’s demonstrative implosion after the Australian Open Men’s...
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lydiajulian1
- Dec 28, 2022
- 7 min
Destiny, destiny- who is to know?
As a new year beckons, it is inevitable that individuals and societies consider what their destiny may be in the months ahead....
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lydiajulian1
- Nov 29, 2022
- 7 min
And it's an end-of-year wrap!
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, 2022
- 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 11, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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
- Jun 27, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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
- Jan 12, 2022
- 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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