Serena Williams.
It’s fascinating to watch the best of the best in sport as their careers are coming to an end.
Serena Williams broke down in tears in her press conference after losing her Australian Open semi-final and it seems to me that the nearer you get to retirement the more it becomes a really hard battle with yourself as much as anything else.
Take out of the equation the fact that she has got a huge all-time record that she’s been chasing down for a while – the most Grand Slams ever won.
What must be the hardest thing to deal with, particularly straight after you come off court, is knowing your best game would have been good enough to beat your opponent but that you’re no longer capable of bringing that best game purely for physical reasons brought on by getting older.
EVE MUIRHEAD: Novak Djokovic should know by now when to stay quiet and good luck to St Johnstone in semi-final
Novak Djokovic.
I don’t really know where to start with all the stories that have been emerging from Australia in the build-up to the Australian Open.
Probably with Novak Djokovic.
For a guy who has been at the top of his sport for so long, he really hasn’t mastered how to win friends, has he?
He is now saying he had “good intentions” when he came out with suggestions on how to improve player conditions and ease some of the protocols in the hotel quarantine that he and others are living through.
Scottish Rinks Weathering Storm
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A desperate curling campaign has succeeded in desperate times.
Scottish curling’s grass roots, already struggling with recent facility closures before the COVID-19 pandemic, got a recent boost when the government pledged U.S. $2.7 million in direct support.
The windfall could mean the difference between some of the nation’s rinks surviving past the pandemic and into the next 2021-22 curling season.
“I was delighted to hear that the work had paid off,” said 2014 Olympic finalist and two-time world men s champion skip David Murdoch. “The last few months have been extremely difficult for all our rinks. They’ve had had incredible pressures of finance, dilemmas of feasibility of opening, and a yo-yo of open or close restrictions.”