Zimbos at the Australian Open

There are three Zimbabweans at the Australian Open. As usual, they are much better than doubles than at singles. I find it really annoying that the press, and even the tennis authorities, pay so little attention to doubles tennis when it's so much more interesting to watch.

Two of them, Wayne Black and Kevin Ullyett, won the men's doubles.

Wayne and his sister Cara were knocked out of the mixed doubles at the quarterfinals by Max Mirnyi and Martina Navratilova, who were in turn knocked out by Ullyett and South African Liezel Huber, who were in turn beaten in the final (tiebreak in the third set - ouch) by a couple of Aussies. Cara Black had a really bad Open; she didn't qualify for the singles, and despite being seeded second in the Women's Doubles with Liezel, went out in the second round. Eh, these things happen, Cara.