Sydney, Jan 24 : Australian Open 2006 runner up Marcos Baghdatis has said it’s a “pain in the arse” that the event organisers keep making him play midnight matches.
Incredibly, a year after featuring in the infamous dawn showdown with Lleyton Hewitt, Baghdatis was again ordered onto court after 11.30 p. m. for another third-round encounter on against American Mardy Fish.
Baghdatis lost to Hewitt in an epic five-setter that finished at 4.34 a. m. in the morning.
Melbourne, Jan 24 : Police in Melbourne are reviewing the security footage of a mass brawl between Serbian and Bosnian supporters at the Australian Open.
Three young men will be charged on summons in relation to the fight on Friday afternoon, and another man has been issued with an on-the-spot fine, a police spokeswoman said.
Up to 30 people were ejected from Melbourne Park after the fight in which chairs were hurled following the match between Serbian Novak Djokovic and Bosnian-born American Amer Delic, News. com. au reported.
Melbourne, Jan. 23 : An up-and-coming golfer who fondled a woman''s breast on an international flight has been fined after being labelled "massively immature" by a magistrate.
Leighton Lyle, the 2007 Victorian amateur champion who earned his Australasian professional tour card last month, was seated next to a woman who was sleeping on a Los Angeles to Melbourne flight in April of that year.
She awoke to feel her nipple being tugged and the top half of her breast exposed, the Melbourne Magistrates Court was told today.
Melbourne, Jan 23 : Heath Ledger''s family has said that they were `proud and excited' by his posthumous Academy Award nomination, but admitted that there's sorrow caused by the late actor's untimely death.
The Brokeback Mountain star has been nominated for an Academy Award for his role in The Dark Knight - exactly a year after his tragic death.
He died due to a prescription-drug overdose at his New York apartment on 22 January (08), shortly after completing filming of the Batman blockbuster.
Ledger's sisters Ashleigh, Olivia and Kate, read a prepared statement to the media at Perth's Cottesloe Beach.