THE LAST SAY: Tips, market movers, inside mail for today’s racing
Tips, market movers and the latest track conditions … Ray Thomas gives you the inside mail you need to back a winner at Randwick, Pakenham, Eagle Farm and beyond today.
Rafael Nadal
Brown chases Southside feature double-double
After winning the Cranbourne Cup and The Meteorite, jockey Ethan Brown has a big shot of completing another Southside feature double at Pakenham.
May appear arrogant, but new ANZ leader also focused and genuine
He’s mad about sports but when it comes to the high-octane world of banking incoming ANZ CEO Nuno Matos is described as a keen adopter of technology and ‘very focused’.
Maher plotting Group 1 campaign for rising star
Promising sprinter Nadal will head for a break after The Supernova before he gets the chance to prove his Group 1 potential in the autumn.
Ash Barty: Rafa lived out my lost tennis dream
Ash Barty’s historic Australian Open victory was never meant to be her final tennis match. In a tribute to Rafael Nadal, she reveals how grateful she is that one of her favourites lived out his tennis dream.
Maher sprinter bolts home in The Meteorite
Exciting sprinter Nadal showed his Group 1 potential with a blistering win in The Meteorite at Cranbourne on Saturday.
Brown targets feature double at Cranbourne
Jockey Ethan Brown is a big chance of claiming The Meteorite-Cranbourne Cup double with the second favourite in both races.
Nadal vs Federer: best rivalry ever? Rafa that!
It was all magical. And it’s all over now. Rafael Nadal has bid farewell after losing in the Davis Cup at home in Spain. I’m so sad. Fed’s gone, and now Rafa’s gone, and they ain’t ever coming back.
‘I have left a legacy’: Rafa bids final farewell
The undisputed ‘King of Clay’, 22-time grand slam winner and all-time great Rafael Nadal has played his final professional tennis match at age 38. His most memorable Grand Slam finals recounted here.
Kyrgios: Why I’m now friends with Piers Morgan
From Twitter spats which led to Nick Kyrgios telling outspoken broadcaster Piers Morgan to ‘eat a d**k’ to world sport’s most unlikely friendship. Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Australia’s most divisive tennis star.
True warrior Nadal found greatness in dark at Wimbledon
It’s an impossible job to stitch together a highlights reel of one of the most epic of careers. Too great, too vast, too long-lasting, too significant. The best solution is to rewind to July 7, 2008.
Tennis icon Rafael Nadal reveals retirement plan
Tennis icon Rafael Nadal has revealed his plan to retire, with the 22-time championship winner and Olympic gold medallist set to end his career by Christmas.
Bull tames apprentice as Spanish dream team prepare for Paris
It won’t only be incredible to see dream duo Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz hit the court together in Paris but watching a tennis great pass on the baton to his apprentice will be a moment to remember.
‘World’s sexiest athlete’ mixes it with global superstars
Sabrina Carpenter buys into the rivalry between Australia and USA, Rafael Nadal is the most popular person in the Olympic Village while the ‘world’s sexiest athlete’ mixes it with Hollywood mega stars. Don’t miss Paris Confidential.
No bigger dissolution of a Fab Four since McCartney left Beatles
The Championships have the air of a farewell to a legendary era as the greatest generation in the history of tennis is over when the gates open at the All England Club on Monday.
My vote for the single greatest tennis shot ever played
Wimbledon starts next week. Rafael Nadal is having one for the road. This is my enduring memory of the Spaniard.
There will never be another Roger
To say that Twelve Final Days is for the hardcore Federer fan is being kind. From the protracted online release of his retirement announcement to his star-studded farewell at the Laver Cup in London, Twelve Final Days is worshipful.
The 12 final days of Roger Federer’s poetic career
Only one criticism was ever levelled at Roger Federer: he lacked the fight of Djokovic and Nadal. ‘I didn’t quite understand what that meant,’ he says in a new documentary | WATCH
Alcaraz ‘finds joy in suffering’ to dethrone Sinner in five-sets
On the court his idol Rafael Nadal has owned for almost two decades, Carlos Alcaraz will seek to create history on Sunday in Paris when he plays for his first Roland Garros title.
‘I don’t know’: Nadal leaves door open on French Open return
Rafael Nadal’s record-breaking French Open career came to its likely end as he crashed out in the first round in straight sets.
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