UPDATE: British former player and Nine commentator Sam Smith says Novak Djokovic must be “devastated” by the “horrible” photos of his father with Putin supporters.
Srdjan Djokovic was filmed saying a phrase in Serbian that has widely been interpreted as “long live the Russians” alongside fans who were flying banned Russian flags, including one with Putin’s face on it at the Australian Open.
Ukraine’s most senior representative in Australia called on the tournament to ban the world No.4’s dad from attending the tournament and also asked for Djokovic himself to detail his thoughts on Russia’s invasion.
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Russia’s path to sending a team to the Paris Olympics next year became clearer on Thursday amid fierce objections from Ukraine.
The International Olympic Committee indicated on Wednesday it favours officially neutral teams from Russia and its ally Belarus at the 2024 Olympics despite a plea from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to exclude them entirely.
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A day later, Russia and Belarus were invited to compete at the Asian Games, a key Olympic qualifier.
In 1970, women’s tennis was virtually nothing.
While the men took centre stage everywhere, the women were relegated to the back courts.
Pay and prize money? Also virtually nothing. Certainly not enough to survive on.
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But that changed when Billie Jean King led a group of the best female players – now known as the Original Nine – to start their own professional tour in pursuit of equal rights.
Todd Woodbridge has applauded Coco Gauff‘s decision to make doubles a priority in the early stages of her career, claiming that it could accelerate her journey to the world No.1 singles ranking.
Gauff, who burst onto the scene as a 15-year-old and is widely considered one of the most likely players to inherit Serena Williams‘ crown, has entered the doubles draw at grand slams consistently over the last two years, climbing to the No.1 ranking in that discipline on the back of finals at the US Open and the French Open.
Maddison Inglis has given boyfriend Jason Kubler the stitch-up of the tournament, calling him on live TV on Friday morning.
During Nine’s coverage of the Australian Open, Inglis was a guest to talk about not only her own performance, but that of Kubler and doubles partner Rinky Hijikata, who will tomorrow night play Hugo Nys and Jan Zielinski in the men’s doubles final.
Inglis and Kubler have been in a relationship for more than three years.
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A landmark lawsuit by the US Justice Department against Alphabet’s Google over its dominance of advertising technology could help rivals and websites that sell ad space, but leaves an uncertain future for the advertisers themselves, experts told Reuters.
The Justice Department’s complaint against Google on Tuesday called for the company to divest Google Ad Manager, a suite of tools including one that lets websites put ad space up for a sale and another that served as an ad marketplace that automatically matched advertisers with those publishers.
Fabrice Grinda says he never intended to run a venture firm. He just really (really) enjoyed angel investing. In fact, by late 2013, when he was on the verge of selling the global classifieds marketplace OLX — his third business — he says he had already written checks to more than 150 startups with his longtime friend and OLX cofounder Alec Oxenford. “We’d been working together forever. It was really a family office that was angel investing at a massive scale,” Grinda recalls.
German insurtech startup Getsafe is adding a fourth market with today’s product launch. In addition to Germany, Austria and the U.K., Getsafe is now going to offer insurance products in France. The company will first offer a home insurance product.
Getsafe is trying to disrupt the insurance market with a focus on digital-first insurance products. It sells its products directly to end customers through its website and app unlike its German rival Wefox.
