Rennae and our cultural attaché Andrea Petkovic are in Melbourne and bringing us daily dispatches from the AO—Rublev plays through cramps to beat an in-form De Minaur, breaking down tactical investments that pay off later in the Tsitsipas/Fritz match (hint: Serve and volley leading to opponent shanks). Unless one of these men can stop Djokovic, the ATP might as well rebrand to “Novak+” and we bathe in the pearls of sweat and whiff of fragrance from Jannik Sinternet’s continued march to glory.

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