Tag: Nick Kyrgios
What the Ash Barty and ‘Special K’ tennis triumphs say about Australia and the buttoned-up sport industry
Image: Mark Baker/AP
The lead-up to the 2022 Australian Open was dominated by the unvaccinated top-ranked male tennis player Novak Djokovic’s ignominious deportation from Australia.
Djokovic’s absence prompted...
Sunday essay: love hurts – on a life of sports fandom
Lleyton Hewitt in 2004. No one who has ever watched Lleyton
play one of his epic matches comes out a hater. DEAN LEWINS/AAP
When you...