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Article: Tennis: Courier at home in heat
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 16, 1994
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IT was 192 years ago that this territory was first approached,
by a Royal Navy sailing boat called HMS Investigator, commanded by
Matthew Flinders. The captain's good name now adorns Melbourne's
six-year-old tennis yard, with its movable steel roof, where the
Australian Open begins tomorrow.
The French, Wimbledon and US championships are to come, but none
has the day-at- the-beach ambience of the Australian at Flinders
Park. Or the location.
The 15,000-seat centre court is downtown, an easy destination
for pedestrians. Although the city's attractive skyline, a handful
of silver skyscrapers, poses as backdrop, Flinders is set apart
within an enclave of greenery on the Yarra River. Sharing the ...