Michael Chammas is a sports reporter with The Sydney Morning Herald
"They feel like they can beat us but we feel they can't." Well, Mr Durant, it appears as though you were right - but not without one almighty scare from a Boomers team hellbent on causing the upset of the Olympics.
There are very few battlers in the sport of tennis. But John Millman may be in the minority. But it wasn't enough to save him against Kei Nishikori in the second round of the Rio Olympics.
Not only is it the first time Australia have beaten Serbia at an Olympic Games, it's also the first time the Boomers have opened their campaign with back-to-back wins.
For the record, Liz Cambage wants to make it clear that Andrew Bogut hugged her, not the other way around. And she also thinks she could take him down in a game of one-on-one.
Fresh off ending Aussie Daria Gavrilova's Olympic dream, US tennis megastar Serena Williams has offered up advice to Australian swimming sisters Bronte and Cate Campbell: "Family first".
Sachin Tendulkar might just be the man who kickstarts cricket's push into the Olympic games after meeting with IOC president Thomas Bach in Rio on Saturday.
German tennis star Dustin Brown was booed, cursed and given a standing ovation by a parochial Brazilian crowd on a day that ended with the 31-year-old taken to a Rio De Janeiro hospital.
In a sport where world records can't be broken, little-known Australian tennis player John Millman has earned a slice of history becoming the first men's singles tennis player to win 6-0, 6-0 at an Olympic Games.
Thanasi Kokkinakis has weighed in on the war between Nick Kyrgios and Kitty Chiller, admitting he doesn't feel sorry for Australia's controversial tennis star.
Australia's tennis stars are used to five-star accommodation, but in the highly criticised athletes' village at the Rio Olympics, Sam Stosur can't even have a warm shower.
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