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.
Stosur on stand-by duty in Istanbul
Linda Pearce While Sam Stosur's dip from world No. 6 to the outer reaches of the top 10 in the past 12 months has cost her a place in this week's year-end WTA Championships, the Australian has a final prizemoney...
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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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Tearful Kvitova felled by unforced errors
Linda Pearce, Istanbul Petra Kvitova made an anxious, erratic and eventually tearful start to the defence of her WTA Championship title this morning, beaten 6-3, 6-2 by fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska in an opening session...
Women's tennis the winner in epic match
Linda Pearce This was a women's match-of-the-year candidate, just when one was needed. A marvellous three-set, three-hour exhibition at the WTA Championships, in which top seed Victoria Azarenka saved two match...
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Sam Stosur beaten soundly in Istanbul
Linda Pearce, Istanbul Sam Stosur was a late starter at the WTA Championships, called-up only after illness forced the withdrawal of defending champion Petra Kvitova.
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Radwanska triumphs in record-breaking WTA match
Linda Pearce, Istanbul The longest best-of-three-set match in WTA Championships history has won Agnieszka Radwanska a semi-final place in the $4.9 million year-end tournament for the first time.
Win over Azarenka has Sharapova in holiday frame of mind
Linda Pearce ISTANBUL: Maria Sharapova insists she will not have Victoria Azarenka, or tennis, on her mind when her holidays begin this week with a strawberry daquiri in one hand, a magazine in the other and the...
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Stosur struggles, turns sights to rest and revival
Linda Pearce, Istanbul Sam Stosur's self-assessment is ''seven out of 10'' for the season she has completed.
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Tomic to play wildcard in Wimbledon opener
Linda Pearce, London After a troubled build-up, Bernard Tomic will open his Wimbledon campaign against the young Belgian wildcard who worried Roger Federer at the French Open just three weeks ago.
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No time to mope: Stosur
Linda Pearce, London Australia's worst Wimbledon performance since 1939 and Sam Stosur's latest ill-fated quest to improve her poor record at the grasscourt major ended simultaneously, and early, on the tournament's...
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No Djoke for Sharapova after shock Wimbledon loss
Linda Pearce Novak Djokovic does a famous impersonation of Maria Sharapova, but there was little about his fellow No.1 today that Djokovic wished to imitate.
Shouting is over for deflated Russian
Linda Pearce, London Maria Sharapova's latest visit to No. 1 has been surprisingly brief.
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Vintage Williams in Wimbledon advance
Linda Pearce Given that the two former champions remaining in the women's draw at Wimbledon collided at the quarter-final stage, only one, obviously, could reach the last four.
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Williams lifts to new level
Linda Pearce, London On top of the shocking indignity of her earliest grand slam loss at last month's French Open, two precarious Wimbledon three-setters against lesser opponents were enough for Serena Williams.
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Williams, Radwanska cruise into Wimbledon final
Linda Pearce, London Serena Williams is within one more win of a fifth Wimbledon title, and only first-time finalist Agnieszka Radwanska can deny the great American a 14th career grand slam.
Dad throws Serena the perfect present
Linda Pearce, London Barbie? Cabbage Patch Kids? Not for the two youngest Williams children, it seems.
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Crowning the comeback
Linda Pearce Serena Williams has made a successful comeback and is on the verge of a fifth Wimbledon title.
Williams' opponent has a handicap
Linda Pearce, London Agnieszka Radwanska will carry a respiratory illness into final against Serena Williams.
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Radwanska to play final in spite of health problems
Linda Pearce Agnieszka Radwanska will carry a respiratory illness into tonight's Wimbledon final against Serena Williams, the Polish third seed withdrawing from the doubles event yesterday to focus on her...
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Serena stutters briefly, but recovers to win
Linda Pearce, London Serena Williams overcomes a bout of nerves to win the women's title.
