The reputation of the happy slam is really on the line at the moment. It's under threat. If there's a sniff of double standards in australia, then there's furar. And many are very suspicious of all these players arriving with the risk of an increase in community transmission of cutevit - which has virtually been eradicated.
How the best-ranked men’s tennis player in the world went to Australia to become the greatest of all time and ended up being detained.
Today’s show was produced by Will Reid with help from Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Mounsey with help from Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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