That was this year
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Hang on… didn’t he start in 2005? That’s what I can recall.
Or unless you meant something among the lines of “he has been on domestic television in Australia for 20 years now”.
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As in 2025 will be Courier’s 21st Australian Open in a row, so he’d have already notched up “20 years” [of the AO - year it is in - not a literal calendar year]
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Rating for the men’s final was the biggest for a tennis match then
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With no disrespect to Marat Safin intended, I reckon it could’ve been larger had it been a Federer vs Hewitt final.
The pair only ever faced off in one Major final, Federer winning in straights at the 2004 US Open.
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He works a lot for tennis channel in the US. With ESPN having the rights, he gets to be on the world feed
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Courier is part of the Australian Open series
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He’s also a past 2 times AO champion
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Davis Cup Australia v Spain
Sunday 15 September 07:00 pm AEST 9Gem
Wide World of Sports presents the 2024 Davis Cup, live from Pabellon Fuente de San Luis, Valencia, Spain. Alex de Minaur, Jordan Thompson, Alexei Popyrin, Max Purcell and Matthew Ebden will represent Australia against Spain. Live play from 7:00PM AEST.
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Haven’t seen the WWOS icon in a hot minute - my eyes are too used to the 2D 9 logo & the Olympic/Paralympic logo!
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Hard to believe just over 20 years ago the Davis Cup was still at a pinnacle of Aussie sport, we were at the top and everybody would get obsessively around it, a true carnival like atmosphere, there was a time where it was arguably considered (at least to many of us) ahead of the Slams! Sad the directions it’s taken 
Can still remember the 2003 final, the flavour and colour, the hype, the victory, Seven’s telecast and Sandy Roberts, so good!
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The Davis Cup is now below the Summer Olympics and United Cup
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I’m still not sure what happened to Davies cup. Why do so many top players treat it as a lower-level tournament these days?
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Nine will have a one-hour highlights of 2024 Laver Cup (held in Berlin last week) in selected states this afternoon. WA will have to wait until Thursday, October 3 to see the episode on 9Gem at midday.
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