Baghdatis is back!

By George Kingsley

Since being at the centre in last years race row between Greek and Turkish Cypriots, Marcos Bagdhatis will be delighted that the focus at Melbourne Park has shifted back to his tennis. A battling 4 set loss to Djokovic which ended at 2.30am is hopefully the start of a comeback which was persistently delayed by injuries last season. Today Bagdhatis looked more like his old self; competing for every point, smiling throughout  and in stages playing some trully brilliant tennis. 

Yet the racial violence which marred last years tournament has resurfaced, first in the match between Tipsarevic and Cilic where two men were arrested for a fight in a bar. and then the following day where 30 fans were arrested during the match between Delic and Djokovic. God knows why this sort of thing keeps on flaring up during the Aussie Open, the only explanation I can think of is that the the Aussie crowd are a little more accepting of the raucous crowd. The most we ever got at Wimbledon was the odd clever dick shouting 'come on Tim' a bit louder than everyone else!

Hopefully we won't see anymore of the nonsense we have seen this week but we see more of the Bagdhatis playing at the top of his game, because on his day, he is still a match for anyone.