Fed express: 'It comes at you so quickly'
Roger Federer first tried to qualify for the Australian Open in 1999. He lost in the first round, in straight sets, to tour veteran Olivier Delaitre. Yes, Virginia, there wasn't a Santa Claus.
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Greg Baum
Greg Baum is chief sports columnist and associate editor with The Age
Federer, simply the best? Roger that
What defines a great sportsperson? Arguably, it can be narrowed down to three precepts: achievement, style and graciousness. Some possess some of these qualities, but in my experience, only in one man are they combined peerlessly and inimitably.
Australian Daria Gavrilova dashes into second week
The Dasha is a doer. Late Saturday night, Daria Gavrilova edged past Switzerland's Timea Bacsinzky in three sets to move into the fourth round of the Australian Open for the second year in a row.
Nadal survives inter-generational war
Rafael Nadal says you return to the tennis circuit, but you don't really feel back on it until you begin to string wins together.
Istomin upsets Djokovic in near five-hour epic
The match of the tournament, in quality and drama, a titanic battle played throughout on another-worldly plane, produced a shock for the ages.
Take a break, Nick
Nick Kyrgios, enough. This has to stop. He has to stop. For his own sake, for tennis's, for ours.
Meeting of unequal equals follows predictable course
They call it a match, implying equal terms, but it isn't, not when it's against Serena Williams in the first round of a major. This much Belinda Bencic now knows.
Murray gets a title at the Australian Open
Game, set and match, Sir Andy Murray.
Kyrgios and Dangerfield: off message, on song
Fake news has been with us longer than you might imagine.
Renegades reign, Melbourne pours in
Another Melbourne derby, another BBL uptick. Undeterred by the woozy weather, more than 71,000 crammed into the MCG to see the the Renegades upset the Stars, also to see themselves on television. One way or another, they got what they came for. The final margin, seven runs, was deceptively close, but is it not always in Twenty20 cricket?
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