The bars, pubs and clubs of Australia are this nation’s great meeting places. We catch up in them. We play out nervous first dates in them. We deliriously celebrate penalty shoot-out wins in them.

It was the perfect opportunity for Australia to walk – or run – that line, in a careful balancing act of game days, recovery, travel days, training and rest days. By the end of the Test on February 1, ...

Stan Wawrinka has revealed that he “closed a bar” to celebrate his Australian Open triumph. The former world No. 3 won his first of three Grand Slam titles in Melbourne Park in 2014.