American tennis legend Lindsay Davenport has won everything you can think of in her illustrious career.
But now the modest former world No.1 is content to sit in the media seats at Margaret Court Arena with the rest of the world’s reporters covering the Australian Open.
Lindsay Davenport playing in 2008.Credit: Vince Caligiuri
The winner of three singles and three doubles grand slam titles, among many others, and an Olympic gold medallist, is now a commentator, mostly for the Tennis Channel.
Davenport, who won the AO singles title in 2000, and was a doubles finalist here six times, is following the all-American clash of Coco Gauff and Hailey Baptiste.
Plenty of other former top tennis players have taken a turn behind the microphone following their careers, but you won’t see the likes of Boris Becker, for instance, slumming it with the rest of the press in the blazing sunshine.
Well played, Lindsay.
