Open Not Just For Players, Says Former Fan

LLEYTON Hewitt believes the Australian Open's current late-January calendar slot is ideal, but it is also true that the Australian, who first visited Melbourne Park as a tennis-mad Adelaide schoolboy on his summer holidays, has never known anything else.

Hewitt Defends Schedule

LLEYTON HEWITT believes the Australian Open's late January calendar slot is the ideal one, but it is also true that the Australian who first visited Melbourne Park as a tennis-mad Adelaide schoolboy on his summer holidays has never known anything else.

Cutting Edge

NEW SEASONING Get ready for pre-fall, the latest season introduced to an already crammed fashion calendar. As the designers want you to keep buying new stuff, they're now making a big thing of the stop-gap summer collections once shown to buyers who needed fresh stuff in the stores between the spring drop and the introduction of the winter woolies. In New York and Paris, at least 23 pre-fall collections were launched last week, from Oscar de la Renta (above) to Chanel, and they'll appear in ...

Grand Slam Still On, Says Federer

THREE times, only the Paris clay has prevented Roger Federer from achieving tennis' holy grail, and he believes the prospect of a player winning the calendar grand slam is greater than ever.