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Wimbledon wipeout suggests sun has truly set on Australia’s golden era | Courtney Walsh

After Ash Barty fulfilled her Wimbledon destiny in 2021 and Nick Kyrgios made the 2022 final, the absence of Australians in the second week this year is starkThe night before Australia’s charge at Wimbledon withered on Saturday, a key figure from the nation’s golden generation declared he too would be bowing out due to the difficulty of travel. Neale Fraser, the 1960 Wimbledon champion who later became a successful Davis Cup captain, told a gathering at the annual “Aussie barbecue” that his 60th visit to the All England Club would also be his last.“It is like a second home. It is 70 years since I played my first match at Wimbledon,” said Fraser, who turns 90 in October. “I remember...

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Andy Murray unlikely to walk away while his fire still burns so brightly | Kevin Mitchell

Former Wimbledon champion’s performance in defeat by Stefanos Tsitsipas shows that his strength and desire remainIs he done? The headlines say, maybe; history and sentiment say, don’t bet on it. From this keyboard, however, It is inconceivable that Andy Murray will walk away from tennis while there is strength in his 36-year-old legs, power in his whirring racket and the odd tear in his reddened eyes.If there is a single compelling argument for the best player these islands have produced since Fred Perry to continue into the gloaming of his illustrious career it surely lies in Murray’s almost perverse compulsion to defy all odds, predictions and whispers in tournament watering holes. He has been doing it at least since 2019,...

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