Michael Gleeson is a senior AFL football writer and Fairfax Media's athletics writer. He also covers tennis, cricket and other sports. He won the AFL Players Association Grant Hattam Trophy for excellence in journalism for the second time in 2014 and was a finalist in the 2014 Quill Awards for best sports feature writer. He was also a finalist in the 2014 Australian Sports Commission awards for his work on ‘Boots for Kids’. He is a winner of the AFL Media Association award for best news reporter and a two-time winner of Cricket Victoria’s cricket writer of the year award. Michael has covered multiple Olympics, Commonwealth Games and world championships and 15 seasons of AFL, He has also written seven books - five sports books and two true crime books.
Emotional Mirijana Lucic-Baroni wept and declared everything bad that had happened in her troubled life was now made OK by winning through to just her second grand slam semi-final, 18 years after her last.
Usain Bolt is coming to town, and he's not planning on leaving as the loser.
Roger Federer is through to a semi final match up with countryman Stan Warinka after beating Mischa Zverev but praising the German's attractive game.
Now a watcher and fan not a player Andy Roddick said a dream final at this year's Australian Open of Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal would be the most important match in grand slam history.
Mischa Zverev didn't have a Plan B. He didn't have it two years ago and he didn't have it two nights ago against Andy Murray.
For the first time ever neither of the men's or women's top ranked players has made the quarter finals after women's world number one Angelique Kerber followed men's top seed Andy Murray out of the Australian Open losing to American Coco Vandeweghe.
The joker and a knight might have been shaken out but the king remains. Roger Federer has become the oldest man to make a grand slam quarter-final since Jimmy Connors after a five-set win over Japanese counter-puncher Kei Nishikori.
'Somebody was the unlucky one, it was me for this one,' Berdych said. 'It's not so much fun. I would rather be sitting in the stands watching than on the court.'
Ash Barty had been here before and never before. The newest sporting code-hopper has emphatically returned to the sport she eschewed for the other summer sport but she has done so as a reawakened player and taking her game to places she had never been before.
There are only so many questions you can ask about slice backhands
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