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The life and times of Boris Becker.

From boom times to the big house: Boris Becker on serving aces, serving time and bouncing back

Thirty-five years since his first Australian Open win took him to the top of world tennis, Boris Becker reflects on the dizzying highs and lows of his “intense life”.

  • Scott Spits

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Twenty-four-time grand slam winner Margaret Court.

Court and Djokovic have won 24 grand slams each. Until now, they’d never met

Margaret Court and Novak Djokovic played in two different tennis eras that were a world apart. Both were champions of their time and won 24 grand slam titles. Djokovic is aiming for more.

  • Scott Spits
Rafael Nadal

Why Rafael Nadal doesn’t make my top 5 all-time tennis greats

If the future of the world was at stake, who would I pick to play a winner-takes-all match?

  • Simon Briggs
Serena Williams, grand slam titles won between 1999 and 2017.

‘I was just a kid with a dream and a racquet’: The evolution of Serena Williams

Breaking up is hard to do. Now the Serena show has come to an end, relive all 23 of her grand slam titles.

  • Kathryn Wicks
Serena Williams enters the Flushing Meadows arena for her opening-round match this week.

Her numbers don’t stack up, but Serena is the GOAT

My memory of Serena Williams is of her sweeping all before her. That may be faulty, but in a sport dominated by numbers there is still more to it than raw figures.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Kalyn and Andre Ponga in Newcastle on Wednesday.

Ponga snr joins the good, the bad and the ugly of sporting parents

Sporting parents have a largely bad reputation, but there are a few diamonds in the rough.

  • Peter FitzSimons
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Djokovic one step closer to grand slam but Medvedev aims to rewrite his US Open story

Novak Djokovic has beaten Alexander Zverev in the US Open semi-finals to move within one victory of a calendar-year grand slam.

Will Pucovski has made himself unavailable for Test selection due to ongoing mental health issues.

The off-field gift modern sports stars give their fans

Not so long ago, sporting stars and the their managers covered-up their mental health challenges.

  • Steve Meacham