Melbourne - Jelena Dokic has again arrived in Australia determined to rescue her tennis, but this time bearing a conciliatory message to her adopted country.
The Serbia-born player, whose career has been a roller-coaster of success and dismal disappointment, has rolled back her harsh comments of a year ago, when the
25-year-old hammered Australian Open officials for failing to award her a wild card.
"I've apologised to (tournament director Craig Tiley) and Tennis Australia," Dokic said after arriving from Monte Carlo to compete in next week's playoff for a wild card entry into the Grand Slam field.
"I made some remarks in January that were out of line. I should not have said that."
Melbourne - The Auckland ATP tournament has won a power struggle with the elite AAMI Classic at Kooyong club over the appearance of Latvian Ernests Gulbis next month.
The 20-year-old's handlers may have somehow double-booked their man into two events during the same January week in two different countries.
With the stalemate threatening, Kooyong organiser Colin Stubs had to yield to the tour, replacing Gulbis with Spanish heart-throb Fernando Verdasco for the January 14-17 Australian Open tune-up headed by Roger Federer.
In another scheduling bungle, American James Blake was also substituted in the eight-man field after his handlers also got their timing wrong.
Melbourne, Dec 10 : A man who showed his ex’s sex tape to friends and family has been asked to pay her a compensation of 135,000 dollars.
The Victorian Court of Appeal awarded Alla Giller the compensation for a breach of confidence by her former de facto, Boris Procopets.
The damages payout was also meant for many assaults Giller suffered at the hands of Procopets and to cover her contribution to the household and as mother to their two children, reports News. com. au.
It has been revealed that Procopets began filming their sexual activities on a hidden camera which she later consented to.
Melbourne, Dec 10 : A backlog of postponed tours and tournaments has made Australia’s cricket team embark on their busiest year on record in 2009, and skipper Ricky Ponting will struggle to spare a weekend for a barbecue. For about a year.
Ponting’s Test, one-day and Twenty20 sides will play up to 140 days of cricket across six countries and be on the road for a whopping 318 days in a gruelling itinerary.
The year includes a four-month tour of the United Kingdom from June to September, in which the ICC Twenty20 World Championship precedes an anticipated Ashes series.
Melbourne, Dec 10 : Lara Bingle has said she still finds it difficult to drive the flash James Bond-style Aston Martin presented to her by fiance Michael Clarke last week.
Bingle, who made a flying three-hour visit to Melbourne last night to attend the opening of the Vodafone store at Crown, was given the 300,000 dollar mean machine as an early Christmas present by her cricketing beau, the Daily Telegraph reported.
"I only got it the other day and have only driven it once. I am not the best driver. It is kind of difficult to drive. It is a heavy car. It has got a big front and lots of power. I am used to driving a mini, so it is one extreme to the other, I guess," Bingle said.
Melbourne, Dec 10 : A backlog of postponed tours and tournaments has made Australia’s cricket team embark on their busiest year on record in 2009, and skipper Ricky Ponting will struggle to spare a weekend for a barbecue. For about a year.
Melbourne, Dec 10 : French scientists are trying to develop self-cleaning windows and windshields – with the help of butterfly wings.
