Linda Pearce
Freelance Sports Writer at Freelance
Sportswriter at CODE Sports
2023 Harry Gordon Aus Sports Journalist of the Year. Was: @agesport. @codesportsau. 50+ slams, Olympics, Comm Games, etc. Liv’s mum. ❤️💙
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1 month ago |
thefirstserve.com.au | Linda Pearce
Through Maya Joint’s recent surge into the WTA’s top 100 as the No.2-ranked teenager behind Russian prodigy Mirra Andreeva, the US-born-and-raised Queenslander also became the third member of the Australian women’s top-five to have originally represented someone else.
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1 month ago |
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Linda Pearce
When Amy Parmenter was being courted by the fledgling Melbourne Mavericks following the shock end to Collingwood’s seven-season dalliance with Super Netball, the Giants’ wing defence raised the subject of the Magpies’ demise. Parmenter knew how hard it had been for the AFL heavyweights to establish a netball foothold in a Melbourne Vixens-dominated market, despite recruiting an all-star line-up and making finals in year one.
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Jan 20, 2025 |
thefirstserve.com.au | Linda Pearce
Much like returning reluctantly to the economy cabin after having somehow snaffled a rare seat in business class, Destanee Aiava has a term for what comes straight after a Grand Slam. "I always describe it as like a 'come down'," says Aiava of the time when the spotlight dims and hospitality and hotel star ratings dwindle, as the game's lesser names return to the far more blue-collar and unglamorous lower-tier events.
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Jan 17, 2025 |
thefirstserve.com.au | Linda Pearce
The power of Carlos Alcaraz is not just in the stinging velocity and outrageous variety of his shotmaking or the extra muscle added to a tweaked service motion with the help of a heavier racquet, but in the irresistible star power he brings to the court and the sport.
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Jan 15, 2025 |
thefirstserve.com.au | Linda Pearce
The precious final time Pat Cash saw his former Davis Cup captain Neale Fraser was during last year’s Australian Open. The UK-based 1987 Wimbledon champion had hoped their next catch-up would be at Melbourne Park in 2025. Fraser died on December 2 at the age of 91. "I missed him by a few months," laments Cash, the singles star of the 1983 and 1986 Davis Cup wins under Fraser at Kooyong and who, like so many, can not remember an Open without the man known fondly as "Frase".
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Australian tennis fans might remember when "Aussie" Hana Mandlikova was partnering @TheRealPatCash @ @hopmancup? My @thefirstserve read on @TennisAustralia recruits and, ahem, acquisitions through the decades, from non-Aussie Hana and beyond. #WTA #tennis https://t.co/aJaVzdo3vN
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Great and deserved ovation for the incredible Australian of the Year @NealeDaniher tonight @AustralianOpen. ❤️💙 https://t.co/x5jPpDRkYb
