Melbourne, Jan. 26 : Australian Open officials have said that they will prevent tennis player Jelena Dokic''s estranged father Damir from meeting his daughter should he attempt to gatecrash her Australian Open party.

The Sydney Morning Herald quoted tournament officials as saying on Monday that he is free to purchase tickets to Melbourne Park, but he would not be allowed to make contact with Australia''s comeback queen - unless given permission to do so by Dokic.

Melbourne, Jan. 26 : British tennis star Andy Murray's dream of lifting the Australian Open has ended. He lost to Spaniard Fernando Verdasco 2-6, 6-1, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.

According to The Telegraph, Murray struggled throughout his match against Verdasco, making uncharacteristic errors from both flanks.

It was a fantastic result for Verdasco, the No14 seed from Spain, whose powerful forehand and dangerous serve held up under pressure. Verdasco will now face either James Blake or Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the last eight.

Melbourne, Jan. 26 : The last survivor of the family that founded the Reuters news agency, Marguerite, Baroness de Reuter, has died. She was 96.

A Reuters website report said that she was the widow of Oliver, 4th Baron de Reuter, whose grandfather Paul Julius Reuter established his news service in London in 1851.

The barony - a German title granted to Paul Julius in 1871 but later confirmed by Queen Victoria as conferring the privileges of the nobility in England - becomes extinct on her death, as she and her husband had no children, Reuters reported.

News. com. au quoted her close friend, John Fox as telling Reuters that the baroness had suffered successive strokes late last year.

Melbourne, Jan. 26 : Experts are now of the view that rushing all-rounder Andrew Symonds back into the Australia team was not a wise step, and add that he should have been given more time to complete his rehabilitation program.

Fox Sports quotes the experts as saying that Symonds'' return to international cricket came so quickly that it felt like he had never left the scene at all.

At the time, the controversial all-rounder appeared contrite when he promised he had learned from his many mistakes.

Melbourne, Jan 26: Sexy Australian supermodel Elle Macpherson has reportedly found love in the arms of multi-millionaire British businessman Damian Aspinall.

According to a source, the catwalk beauty has been on a string of dates with Aspinall and was recently spotted with him as they left a performance of Complicit at London''s Old Vic Theatre.

"They were all over each other as soon as they arrived at the theatre,'''' News. com. au quoted an onlooker, as telling British tabloid The Sunday Mirror.

Melbourne, jan. 26 : New Zealand wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum is insisting that he has no hard feelings towards Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds after the latter labelled him a "lump of shit" during a recent radio program.

Symonds has publicly criticized the decision by New South Wales last week to sign McCullum on the eve of Saturday night''s domestic Twenty20 final against Victoria.