Linda Pearce

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.

Australian 'loss' a matter of form

Linda Pearce Could world No. 15 Milos Raonic have been the top-20 successor to Lleyton Hewitt?

Tennis

Tomic not ready, says former great

Bernard Tomic

Linda Pearce Frank Sedgman does not expect to be watching an Australian win the world's biggest title.

Wildcard sends disappointing Tomic packing

Bernard Tomic reacts during his first-round defeat.

Linda Pearce, London Bernard Tomic has been dumped from Wimbledon by a Belgian wildcard who had never before won a tour-level match on grass.

Tennis

Hewitt bows out and then there were none

Lleyton Hewitt

Linda Pearce, London With a final netted backhand from faded great Lleyton Hewitt, Australia confirms its worst result since 1938.

Tennis

Murray faces major threat as men line up for finals

Andy Murray celebrates his Wimbledon win.

Linda Pearce At last, the Wimbledon men's quarter-final line-up is complete.

Tennis

Federer storms into Wimbledon semi-final

Roger Federer

Linda Pearce, London Roger Federer has reached a record 32nd grand slam semi-final but first at Wimbledon in three years, after an imperious 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 domination of his 14-time whipping boy, Russian Mikhail Youzhny.

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