While some rookies grabbed the spotlight in Melbourne, it was also a tournament in which veterans showed experience was invaluable in the doubles competition, Dave Worsley writes.
Once shunned by top players and poorly attended in Kooyong, the tournament’s huge transformation has been explained – and one thing was key to its success.
The kid from Hyattsville who learned on the courts of College Park and has grown up traveling the tennis world as "Big Foe" returns to Washington this week for his home tournament, the Mubadala Citi DC Open, with a new title: Top 10.