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
Davis Cup ban turns up the heat on Tomic
Linda Pearce EXCLUSIVE Bernard Tomic suspended from Australia's opening Davis Cup tie in Taiwan next season.
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Tomic dropped from Davis Cup tie after slack attitude
Linda Pearce BERNARD TOMIC has been suspended from Australia's opening Davis Cup tie in Taiwan next season as the estrangement between the country's most talented young player and the tennis establishment spills...
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Tomic and Hewitt take Australia to 2-0 Davis Cup lead
Linda Pearce, Geelong Australia needs just one point from the final three matches of its Davis Cup zone group tie to advance past China to a second round appointment with either Korea or Taiwan in April, after Bernard...
Tennis
Tomic pushed in Davis Cup win
Linda Pearce, Brisbane Australia will take a predictable, yet hard-fought, 2-0 lead into the final day of its Davis Cup tie against a depleted but spirited South Korea, with Matt Ebden's victory in his first live rubber...
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Aussies steady to reach Davis Cup playoffs
Linda Pearce, Brisbane Australia has booked a place in the Davis Cup world group playoffs for the third consecutive year despite dropping the first set of the Asia/Oceania zone tie against South Korea during today's...
Tennis
Aussies complete Davis Cup 5-0 sweep
Linda Pearce, Brisbane Australia has completed a 5-0 sweep of its Asia/Oceania zone group tie against South Korea, with Bernard Tomic and substitute Marinko Matosevic cleaning up the two reverse singles rubbers in...
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Rush of blood to the red?
Linda Pearce Success may have been rare on Parisian clay but the talent is there to make an impact.
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Angry young man disappoints
Linda Pearce Todd Woodbridge has called ''disappointing'' the defection of former Australian Open junior champion Brydan Klein to Britain, his mother's birthplace, while insisting that the combustible 23-year-old...
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John Tomic banned; Bernard remains in French Open
Linda Pearce John Tomic has been banned from Roland Garros as his son, Bernard, prepares to contest next week's French Open.
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Tomic at a crossroads: coach
Linda Pearce Australia's Davis Cup coach sees a crucial period looming in Tomic's development.
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Tomic back in training for possible French Open campaign without father
Linda Pearce Tennis Australia is expecting and encouraging Bernard Tomic to contest this month's French Open, despite coach John Tomic recently declaring his son's participation unlikely.
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Tomic on path to Paris
Linda Pearce Tennis Australia is expecting and encouraging Bernard Tomic to contest this month's French Open.
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Guccione out for Tomic in cup tie
Linda Pearce Bernard Tomic reinstated for next week's tie against Uzbekistan on indoor clay.
Tennis
Roger revved up for weekend at Bernie's
Linda Pearce BERNARD TOMIC watched Roger Federer play Nikolay Davydenko on Thursday night, just as Federer would have monitored the young Australian's performance on Rod Laver Arena earlier that afternoon.
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Elite agree Tomic must improve his away game
Linda Pearce FOR Bernard Tomic, the message has come repeatedly from Novak Djokovic, Patrick Rafter, and now Roger Federer. It is all very well to shine at home, to thrive on your local circuit.
Tennis
Tomic: time to take on world
Linda Pearce Roger Federer can see what Bernard Tomic needs to address next.
Ivanisevic senses love is in the air
Linda Pearce PAT RAFTER and Bernard Tomic have taken the first step towards a rapprochement, through a casual but amicable postscript to the end of Tomic's Australian Open campaign.
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.
Hewitt prevails against fellow veteran
Linda Pearce Australia pushed to three sets by world No.162 Igor Kunitsyn at Brisbane International.
