Sports: Tennis: Top-ranked world champ advances to his 4th round in Australian Open

The top-ranked professional tennis player, Novak Djokovic, advanced to the fourth round of the Australian Open today with a straights-set win over Radek Stepanek.  He was interviewed on USA television by Oprah Winfrey, spending much of his time raking Lance Armstrong (the disgraced cyclist who admitted to doping).  Djokovic says, "I think it’s a disgrace for the sport to have an athlete like this." — based on the Hurriyet report below.

— Sportikos, refWrite Backpage newspotter, analyst, columnist


Hurriyet Daily, Istanbul (Jan18,2k13)