Sport

Michael Gleeson

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.

Jordan Thompson of Australia celebrates winning his first round match against Joao Sousa of Portugal.

As good as it gets for Aussie

Australian battler Jordan Thompson had his Lleyton Hewitt moment in front of the man himself when he won in a gutsy come from behind five setter in the first round of the Australian Open.

Switzerland's Roger Federer celebrates after defeating Austria's Jurgen Melzer

Federer delivers Swiss master class

Six months out has not dulled Roger Federer's game, the record breaking former world number one has won his first round match at the Australian Open.