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Raducanu aims for minor tune-up test at Kooyong
- By Bill Scott
- . January 8, 2024
Emma Raducanu has been thrown a lifeline in the run-up to Sunday’s Australian Open start, with the Brit offered a spot in the Kooyong exhibition
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Time for timeout change
- By Peter Rowe
- . January 7, 2024
IS it time to change the medical timeout rules in the wake of the wrist injury to Novak Djokovic last week? Australian John Alexander think
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Poland break new ground as United Cup finalists
- By Bill Scott
- . January 6, 2024
Iga Swiatek turned her form around after dropping her first set of the tournament as the world No. 1 led Poland into the final of
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Long-lost Raducanu makes winning return
- By Bill Scott
- . January 2, 2024
Former US Open winner Emma Raducanu, whose career looked to have been buried by injury, made a winning return to the courts after nine months
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Osaka marks return to tennis with Brisbane win
- By Bill Scott
- . January 1, 2024
Naomi Osaka ended a long break from tennis on Monday, starting the New Year with a 6-3, 7-6 (9) defeat of German Tamara Korpatsch to
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Australia Calling
- By Peter Rowe
- . December 31, 2023
WE have yet to hit 2024, but the world’s best players are already Down Under preparing for the first Grand Slam of the new year.
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Osaka returns: ‘but I almost packed in my career’
- By Bill Scott
- . December 31, 2023
Naomi Osaka will return to the courts for the first time in well over a year after putting her career on motherhood hold – and
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Presents galore in 2023
- By Peter Rowe
- . December 24, 2023
IT’S Christmas Eve, in case you’ve forgotten. And presents are already being handed out – just ask Naomi Osaka. Osaka’s daughter Shai was given a
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Halep fears for her career if doping appeal fails
- By Bill Scott
- . December 17, 2023
Simona Halep is hopeful a positive appeals decision by a sporting court in Switzerland will mean the end of a doping drama which has dragged on