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lydiajulian1
Oct 12, 202011 min read
Paris never disappoints!
When Michael Chang won the French Open in 1989 defeating Stefan Edberg in five sets, he was just over 17 years old. The following year...
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Julian Dowse
Oct 4, 20207 min read
A pox on both candidates!
I have discovered that when searching for images to insert into articles, copying of certain photographs will result in a slightly...
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lydiajulian1
Sep 27, 202011 min read
Preparing for Paris in a pandemic
Probably the most important connection between tennis and politics was the declaration of the Tennis Court Oath in Paris on 20 June,...
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lydiajulian1
Sep 20, 202010 min read
It's Thiem's time, but he took his time about it!
Until Dominic Thiem’s victory last week in the US Open, the last man to win the title outside of “the great three” was Switzerland’s Stan...
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lydiajulian1
Sep 13, 202010 min read
One strike and you are out! Six state borders and you are locked in!
On reflection I suppose that most people thought that the only way Novak Djokovic would not win the US Open was if he beat himself. And...
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lydiajulian1
Sep 6, 20207 min read
A week to go in New York and Melbourne or so we thought...
One week of the US Tennis Open left in New York. One week left of the latest lockdown in Melbourne, but suddenly a two week extension…...
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lydiajulian1
Sep 2, 20203 min read
Borders and pandemics should not be alibis for poor policy behind the 'Iron Ore Curtain'...
It is said that desperate times call for desperate measures. However, they should never be a reason for dishonourable and unprincipled...
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lydiajulian1
Sep 2, 20207 min read
An 'F word' that matters...
As Australia's pandemic problems start to fracture our political system, it is important to remember how our Federal system of government...
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Julian Dowse
Aug 30, 20209 min read
Very Few Borders have Soft Edges
As the US Open commences and the immovable side, service and baselines of tennis courts will determine players’ fates, it seems our nation’
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Julian Dowse
Aug 23, 202012 min read
40 Years On
It does not seem possible, but it is forty years since Azaria Chamberlain disappeared. What else has disappeared and changed in Australia..
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Julian Dowse
Aug 2, 20207 min read
Playing the Percentages
I have always believed that 95% of people do the right thing 95% of the time.
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Julian Dowse
Jun 13, 20206 min read
Gone with the Mob
England’s statues are falling down
Falling down, falling down
England’s statues are falling down
Why ,oh why, are we so angry?
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Julian Dowse
Feb 7, 202016 min read
Aus Open 2020
Impeachment trials; US-China Trade agreements; a booming and then faltering Australian stock market; so much to consider.
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Julian Dowse
Sep 15, 201916 min read
US Open 2019 - The numbers and the year fit
As the Grand Slam season of 2019 ends there is a wonderful symmetry in the Men’s game between the numerals of the year and the statistics.
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Julian Dowse
Jul 16, 201920 min read
Wimbledon 2019
Good God, the world is strange. President Trump is promising to make Iran great again after imposing sanctions to make it economically weak
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Julian Dowse
Jun 14, 201914 min read
French Open 2019
Les Murray, for many our national poet, was farewelled this week at a State Memorial Service.
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Julian Dowse
Jan 30, 201920 min read
Aus Open 2019: The Next Generation cometh - well maybe for the women, but not yet for the men
Last year, an engaging Australian film, Ladies in Black, was released. Set in Sydney in 1959 it is a ‘coming of age’ story of a young girl.
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Julian Dowse
Sep 16, 201816 min read
US Open 2018
Having sought to establish a connection between tennis and patterns of social and political conduct in the wider arenas of life....
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Julian Dowse
Jul 17, 201828 min read
Wimbledon 2018
Not long after this year’s French Open Stephen Hawking’s ashes were interred in Westminster Abbey, next to those of Sir Isaac Newton.
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