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...Pistol Pete is hoping to serve up a comeback. Sampras is set to play in the Outback Champions Series in May--the 14-time Grand Slam winner's first tournament since...
...Zindabad!" (Long Live Islam!), a few move to the middle of the circles, chain flails gripped in both hands. The chest pounding grows stronger, quicker and louder. Following the rhythm, the men in the middle crouch down, spring from the ground and use the full force of acceleration to slam the flails down on their exposed backs. Bruises bloom, dark and malevolent, but their faces register no pain, only grief, or an almost otherworldly conviction...
...mind turns to the wooden frames he used to win four Grand Slam tournaments, starting with the Australian Open 50 years ago, when he beat his mate Neale Fraser on grass in the final. "I can show you," he says, rising from his dining table and disappearing into another part of his Brisbane home. Though 70 and with two new hips, he moves lightly, returning moments later with a battered racquet. Its head is small by today's standards, but it feels heavy and unwieldy. Cooper's big break in the '57 Open was Fraser upsetting Lew Hoad...
...Though his name doesn't resonate today like those of some of his contemporaries, Cooper for a time was king of the court. Triumph in the '57 Open imbued him with a confidence that swept him to a stellar 1958, when he won three of the four Grand Slams (he missed out at the French Open), placing him in what is today just a nine-member group who've achieved the "small slam." Such a feat yielded no riches in those amateur times, but that's never bothered him. "The players then were friends," he says...
...record, Agassi, though a humble champion, thought the theory was right. And the fact that four of his eight grand slam victories were Australian Open titles did nothing to undermine it. The first grand slam event of the year, the Australian Open poses a peculiar challenge to the players. Apart from a warm-up event or two, it's their first tournament for more than a month and follows a festive period often characterised by rest, (relative) overindulgence and an aversion to anything that reminds them of tennis. Thus, the Oz Open tends to favor two types of player...