Australian Open 2012

Margaret Court is Australia's greatest women's tennis player ever and has a stadium named after her. She is also a senior pastor at Perth's Victory Life Centre church. The gay movement in America thought it was a great idea to champion their cause for same-sex marriage by hijacking the Australian Open and urging activists to wear and display “Rainbow” colours and flags at the Margaret Court arena.


Not surprisingly Pastor Court doesn’t support homosexuality or same-sex marriage which puts her at odds with tennis greats Martina Navratilova and Billie Jean King and because of her views, she’s been accused of directing hatred towards homosexuals. Court said she has never felt hatred towards gay people and was merely expressing God’s word, as taken from the Scriptures.


"I think I have a right, being a minister of the gospel, to say what it says from a scriptural side. I have been married for 44 years this year and, to me, marriage is something very special, wonderful, ordained by God. I look at the children of our next generation and think of the problems they are having in America with all this -- we don't need it in our nation." This puts Australian Open organisers in a tight spot and while acknowledging Court’s great achievements, Tennis Australia nor the Women’s Tennis Association share her views that homosexuality is a choice.





Last night we saw two angry men behaving badly. Marcos Baghdatis and David Nalbandian both put on extraordinary displays of anger, each destroying their racquets by bashing them into the ground in a fit of rage.


But it was Baghdatis who took the best tantrum award, smashing four racquets in a row into the ground after he was two sets down to 21st seed Stanislas Wawrinka at Margaret Court Arena. Baghdatis is a favourite among Aussie fans and was runner-up in 2006 but the audience watched in amazement as he completely lost it, fully aware that he was being filmed. Sadly it didn’t help, he eventually lost the match.





There was more controversy in the earlier marathon match that went on for nearly five hours between Argentinian David Nalbandian and American John Isner. When Isner served straight down the middle, a linesman called it out but French umpire Kader Noun overruled it and when Nalbandian challenged, Nouni said it was too late.


When a replay showed the ball was in fact a fault, he marched to the umpire’s chair “Can you be that stupid?” When he finally lost the match, he threw his racquet across the court. "It's ridiculous playing this kind of tournament with this kind of umpire," said Nalbandian. "Incredible." It was no surprise when the king of tantrums, ex champion John McEnroe agreed that the umpire was indeed an “idiot.”