Samantha Stosur’s retirement isn’t keeping her from tennis. She speaks to Kasey Symons about new media opportunities and being named Australian Billie Jean King Cup Captain. Former Australian tennis star Samantha Stosur’s preparation for the 2024 Australian Open looked a little bit different this year. After announcing her retirement on home soil at the 2023 …
Kasey Symons reviews Ben Rothernberg’s new book “Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice”. I wouldn’t class myself as a “tennis fan”. It’s one of those sports I have a fleeting interest in when the Australian Open rolls around (hence this issue of the Siren Sport newsletter!) and the other Grand …
Award winning journalist Angela Pippos makes her Siren Sport debut, tackling the use of the term ‘ladies’ in sport and why it’s got to go. Long before I started flexing my feminist muscle, I watched the 1992 film A League of Their Own, by ground-breaking director Penny Marshall and starring Geena Davis. It’s a story …
As Roland Garros approaches, Linda Pearce looks at Ash Barty on clay and what about her game makes the surface one of the Australian’s best. As an understated yet outrageously gifted young Queenslander named Ashleigh Barty was emerging as the great Australian tennis talent of her generation, it was on the historic Wimbledon lawns that …
Is tennis the most feminist sport? Linda Pearce explores that very question while also looking at the most compelling storylines from the 2021 Australian Open.