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Linda Pearce

Linda Pearce is the Chief Tennis Writer and general sports reporter for The Age. She writes about a range of sports, including football, netball, and gymnastics. Linda has twice been named Australian tennis writer of the year.

Tennis

Djokovic piles pain on Murray

Linda Pearce FOR Novak Djokovic, no shirt ripping this time, no early-morning, record-setting marathon, but still a history-making result.

Tennis

Djokovic piles pain on Murray

Linda Pearce For Novak Djokovic, no shirt ripping this time, no early-morning, record-setting marathon.

French the ace in pack for ambitious Djoker

Linda Pearce Novak Djokovic was on his way to Tullamarine Airport early on Monday morning at a time, 12 months earlier, that his previous final on Rod Laver Arena was still being played.

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Djokovic's dash of history

Linda Pearce Celebrations had to be put on ice after Novak Djokovic won his third straight Australian title.

What, me Murray?

Linda Pearce For the reigning US Open champion the pressure to win a major is off, but he's sure that 2013 will bring new challenges.

The home stretch

Linda Pearce Lleyton Hewitt gets ready to look towards the day when he will finally call it quits.

Ten things to like about tennis this summer

Linda Pearce Interactive: The tournaments, players and moments to watch this season.

Tennis

Serena's rekindled passion

Linda Pearce Serena Williams makes jokes about arthritis these days, about the good-time girl who has become so staid that she often fancies a nanna nap, and so dull that sometimes she even bores herself.

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The softer side of superwoman

Linda Pearce SERENA Williams makes jokes about arthritis these days, about the good-time girl who has become so staid that she often fancies a nanna nap, and so dull that sometimes she even bores herself.

Even for himself, Djokovic is an impossible act to follow

Linda Pearce AFTER taking his ATP World Tour Finals trophy to the German hospital bedside of his ill father, Srdjan, then heading to Brazil to play a weekend exhibition against Gustavo Kuerten and football with...

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Hewitt's hunger still burns

Linda Pearce One of the sport's ageing warriors has both unfinished business and an evolving role.

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Tennis superstars undecided on the year's best player

Linda Pearce This week's $4.9 million WTA Championships could help decide who is the women's player-of-the-year.

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Untouchable Serena defeats Sharapova

Linda Pearce Serena Williams extended her domination of both Maria Sharapova and women's tennis this morning, the American completing an untouchable second half of the season with a 6-4, 6-3 defeat of Sharapova...

Tennis

Federer survives scare to enter quarter-finals

Linda Pearce, Shanghai Roger Federer's record 300-week reign as world No.1 is assured.

Tennis

Federer, Murray on collision course

Linda Pearce, Shanghai Roger Federer and Andy Murray will tonight meet for the first time since Murray's emphatic victory in the gold medal match at the London Olympics, when the winners of the past two grand slam titles...