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.
Stars say drug-testing is stringent in tennis
Linda Pearce, Istanbul Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova approve of the exacting drug-testing procedures in tennis.
Tennis
Stars learn to deal with drug tests
Linda Pearce 'People show up at my house at five in the morning trying to test me' says Serena Williams.
Tennis
Federer rallies to avoid Nadal's fate
Linda Pearce As the ghost of Rafael Nadal swirled around under the centre court roof that had enclosed the upset of the tournament - and, perhaps, the decade - at Wimbledon on Thursday night, Roger Federer...
Tennis
Crowning the comeback
Linda Pearce Serena Williams has made a successful comeback and is on the verge of a fifth Wimbledon title.
Tennis
Serena stutters briefly, but recovers to win
Linda Pearce, London Serena Williams overcomes a bout of nerves to win the women's title.
Believe it, Victoria, believe it! The new tennis queen
Linda Pearce 'What happened?' Victoria Azarenka kept asking, as if she did not dare to believe all the questions her performance had just answered.
