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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...

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...

In one of the final scenes of the movie, The Queen, her late majesty is seen encouraging Tony Blair to conduct their weekly audience...

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...

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...

It’s all in the timing. Maybe we have always known that. Imagine if Wimbledon had been held this week. Yesterday, London recorded its...

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’...

Wimbledon starts tonight. All eyes of tennis fans will turn to its famous Centre Court whose flawless grass surface, only played on in...

Few probably realise that the French Open has provided Central America with its first ever Grand Slam champion. Marcelo Arevalo from El...

When, in a fortnight’s time, the finals of the French Open are played the respective champions will be awarded their trophies because...

Some days you remember more than others. 21st August 1983 is one of those days. In peaceful, democratic Australia, the newly elected...

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...

The political terms left and right wing were coined when what became known as the Tennis Court oath was taken during the French...

“Where there is discord, may we bring harmony”. So said Margaret Thatcher, quoting St. Francis of Assisi, upon entering No. 10 Downing...

The question is, would the character played by the much loved and recently departed Sidney Poitier in his 1963 movie be more welcome to...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...