For 31-year-old Hewitt, Australia's return to the world group is an obsession. Accompanied at yesterday's imaginative seaside draw ceremony by team captain Pat Rafter and coach Tony Roche, Hewitt said Australia was desperate to succeed this season...

The latest incident will prompt discussion internally as to the merits of playing Tomic in a tie Australia is heavily favoured to win. But it is Tomic's relationship with his teammates and Davis Cup officialdom that will come into question. In...

Even if it is limp, warm, fleeting, clasping. I like its cousins, the arm on shoulder, pat on chest, word in ear. I like that when I ask Tony Roche, the 1966 French Open champion, about the importance of the handshake he is almost bewildered by the...

But it is Tomic's relationship with his teammates and Davis Cup officialdom that will come into question. In September, Tomic angered Rafter and Davis Cup coach Tony Roche with his behaviour during Australia's loss to Switzerland in a world group...

West Derby teenager Tom Kyle, who finished off 2011 with a string of superb performances, will go with a party of around a dozen youngsters from the North West, to help him get into top shape and form for the new season. The highly-regarded...

A Wimbledon quarter-final launched him, rocket-like, into the top 100; this Australian Open run to at least the fourth round has started what will be just his first full year playing with the big boys. None, still, is bigger than the Swiss, but...