ROCKETING BACK TO HEALTH
Fortunately the tabernacle of tennis-on-the-Yarra is not named Rod Laver Memorial Arena. But it was a near thing >>> MORE

WHEN AUSTRALIANS HELD COURT
Where have you gone, Dale Collings?
Or Martino Mulligano? Not to mention the Old Hacker…Snake…Tex…Rolling… Candy Man…Sexy Rexy…Old Fruit …Bones? >>> MORE

TSARS OF THE SHOW
Did the Bolsheviks shoot Czar Nicholas II in 1918 because he was a tennis player? Might Tolstoy's tragic heroine, Anna Karenina, have jumped in front of that train because her double fault cost her and her lover, Count Vronsky, a mixed doubles match? Is it possible that Anna Dmitrieva's appearance at Wimbledon in 1958 gave a lovely, human face to the other side in the Cold War? >>> MORE