By: Frank Dalleres

Sports Editor Frank Dalleres is Sports Editor of City AM. He has almost two decades' experience covering the business of sport and has reported from Olympic Games and major international football, rugby union, tennis and golf competitions, both at home and abroad. Get in touch with stories and tip-offs and follow him on X at @frankdalleres

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Emma Raducanu leads British charge at Australian Open

January 18, 2022

Emma Raducanu swept past fellow former US Open winner Sloane Stephens to cap a fruitful day for British tennis players at the Australian Open. Raducanu ended a three-match losing run by beating American Stephens 6-0, 2-6, 6-1 to set up a second round clash with Danka Kovinic on Montenegro. Earlier, Andy Murray, Dan Evans and [...]
England cricketers sorry after Australian police break up boozy Ashes party

January 18, 2022

England cricket chiefs have apologised after police were called to break up a boozy party at the team hotel early yesterday morning following the end of the Ashes series in Australia. Tasmania Police spoke to players from both the England and Australia teams, who were sharing a post-series drink in Hobart, at around 6am on [...]
British No1 Cameron Norrie falls at first hurdle in Australian Open

January 17, 2022

British No1 Cameron Norrie admitted his disappointment after crashing out of the Australian Open in the first round against American Sebastian Korda. Norrie, who was seeded 12th in Melbourne after a breakthrough 2021 campaign, was comprehensively beaten 6-3, 6-0, 6-4. Korda, 21, is the son of Czech former Australian Open champion Petr Korda and brother [...]
English football’s postponement rules are broken. It needs to fix them

January 17, 2022

To say the postponement of yesterday’s north London derby divided opinion would be an understatement. Tottenham Hotspur and, going by social media, the overwhelming majority of their fans were outraged that Arsenal’s request to defer the game for an unspecified number of Covid-19 cases had been accepted by the Premier League. Arsenal supporters, meanwhile, seemed [...]
No one should mourn Novak Djokovic’s absence from Australian Open

January 16, 2022

In an alternate reality, Novak Djokovic would be beginning his bid to win a 10th Australian Open and a men’s all-time record 21st Grand Slam tournament on Sunday night in Melbourne. Instead, after the tennis world No1 lost his final appeal against deportation, he was kicked out of the country on the eve of his [...]
Netflix tennis doc to capture Novak Djokovic Australian visa drama

January 13, 2022

The Novak Djokovic Australian Open visa saga is set to feature in a new fly-on-the-wall docuseries to be shown on Netflix, according to reports. The makers of smash-hit Formula 1 show Drive To Survive are currently filming a tennis version featuring some of the biggest names on the men’s and women’s tours, says the Mail. [...]
Will Mikel Arteta’s real Arsenal stand up?

January 13, 2022

When tonight’s Carabao Cup semi-final first leg between Liverpool and Arsenal was due to take place last week, there was a spring in the step of Mikel Arteta and those at the London club. Seven days later, they go into the contest attempting to recover from a costly stumble that has revived questions about the [...]
Novak Djokovic: Australia probes star’s Covid-19 breach and visa errors

January 12, 2022

Australian officials have widened their investigation into Novak Djokovic after several new questions were raised over the tennis star’s visa application, according to reports. Immigration authorities are looking into his admission of breaking isolation rules in his native Serbia, false statements about his previous travel on his entry form and exactly when his Covid-19 tests [...]
Novak Djokovic: Sponsors tipped to stand by tennis star’s £20m contracts

January 11, 2022

Novak Djokovic may have been deluged with negative publicity over his visa row and anti-vax stance but that is unlikely to cost him any major sponsorship deals, say industry experts. Djokovic looks set to play the Australian Open next week after successfully appealing the decision to deny him entry to the country over questions about [...]
Novak Djokovic documentation questioned after test result ‘changes from negative to positive’

January 11, 2022

Fresh questions have been raised about Novak Djokovic’s right to enter Australia after German media highlighted alleged irregularities in his Covid-19 test documentation. Der Spiegel reported that the QR code on a form submitted by Djokovic linking to a PCR test result last month was showing as a negative result yesterday – rather than the [...]

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