Tag: Tennis Australia
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January Australia Day Celebrations: “Reverse-Apartheid?”
26 January 2024 Dear Editor, I see where some have defended Corporate Australia’s (in this case Woolworths’ and Tennis Australia’s) right to weigh in on social matters such as Australia Day. What such Corporate Australia (and thus forgiven a debt of some $43 billion owed to Victorian taxpayers by the Victorian Government, Tennis Australia) supporters…
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Younger Generations Must Not be Tainted by Acceptance of Bad Behaviour!
July 6, 2023 Dear Editor, So, “Nick Kyrgios has many haters!” is the theme/opinion of many modern-day reporters/journalists, sub-editors and editors? Wrong! Yes, the mercurial, brilliant Kyrgios is disliked by so many (including this parent, grand- and great-grandparent writer); however, what is so greatly detested is the official acceptance and pandering to — even by Tennis…
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What to do with Kyrgios?
January 19, 2022 Dear Editor, “What to do with Nick Kyrgios?” is being asked. Attention: Tennis Australia CEO Craig Tiley: Australian tennis greats Nick Kyrgios (though no Rod Laver) and Margaret Court (even greater than Serena Williams; a far greater all-round Australian than Kyrgios!) might have two characteristics in common: a courtside manner, and the…
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Tennis Australia Insults Australia!
February 22, 2021 Dear Editor, By not inviting Australia’s (not to mention the world’s!) greatest-ever women’s tennis champion in Margaret Court to this year’s Tennis Open, Tennis Australia insulted the 40% of Australians who – as is our democratic right! – voted against same-sex marriage (and abhor “fluid gender” pressure on vulnerable and immature young…