The ATP has reacted swiftly to counter suggestions that a tennis player has been in any way interesting in the past 30 years. “We don’t encourage that kind of thing, and any player showing the slightest hint of a personality has been spoken to,” said a grey man in a…

So, there you are, a librarian. Possibly a primary school teacher, or who knows what you are. But for a bit of extra dough, you take the certificates and sit on the line at the US Open. It’s a stressful job, but rewarding and you get to talk about it…

What’s that sound? It might be the terrible whining made by jets warming up to ferry fallen Aussie Open contenders away from Australia, crying bitter tears. Or it could be the constant stream of complaints emanating from Open press conferences lately. It’s like Goldilocks in there. First we have Svetlana…

There’s been a lot of scrambling among beaut Aussie journos lately as angry, cigar-chewing sports editors demand information on anything to do with Bernard Tomic, who, to their apparent amazement, won a match instead of losing it. So far, this is what they’ve found out: He’s Australian He’s 16 One…

If you want to see something amusing, have a look at Marat Safin’s latest press conference. The racquet-throwing tennis giant’s face has clearly come up against something harder than itself recently, prompting the obvious questions from Perth journos at the Hopman Cup. But instead of the icy “no comment” you’d…

We thought we’d lost him to Hollywood, but – glory of glories! – Mark Philippoussis has announced his intention to recapture the good old playing days, when he graced the last 16 – and sometimes quarter-finals - of the world’s biggest tournaments. “I want to give it one more go,”…

As anyone who’s drunk Old Kentucky with the Bucket down at the Sailor’s Arms knows, it gets to that certain point of the evening where one has a leetle leetle trouble standing on one’s hind legs and staying there without a large bloke in a bad suit “suggesting” it’s time…