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
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.
Tennis
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.
Linda Pearce
Harsh but fair as Rafter wrangles difficult team
Linda Pearce When Bernard Tomic was told of his disciplinary dumping from Australia's Davis Cup team for next year's opening round zone tie in Taiwan, he asked for the reasons why. Really?
Tennis
Tomic admits coming up short in tough year
Linda Pearce, Shanghai Bernard Tomic meekly departs the Shanghai Rolex Masters in the first round.
Tennis
Tomic's exertion queried again
Linda Pearce SHANGHAI: Bernard Tomic has meekly departed the Shanghai Rolex Masters in the first round through a 6-4, 6-0 capitulation to Florian Mayer, the German acknowledging that Tomic ''probably didn't try...
Tennis
Tomic needs to act on Rafter's ultimatum
Linda Pearce Simply, Bernard Tomic has to work harder. Pat Rafter has been saying it and Tomic has been agreeing.
Venus vows to go for gold
Linda Pearce, London For all her defiance, bordering on rudeness, Venus Williams, 32, is struggling.
Tennis
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.
Tennis
Crowning the comeback
Linda Pearce Serena Williams has made a successful comeback and is on the verge of a fifth Wimbledon title.
Tennis
Champion gets down to grass tacks
Linda Pearce, London Serena Williams' win was not just the culmination of all that has happened, but perhaps the start of something else.
