Time for a bit of tennis, and I really do mean just a little bit, as we check in on the Tie Break Tens tournament in Melbourne. This innovative short form elimination competition features matches consisting solely of a super tiebreak which is simply the first player to ten points wins. And like all tiebreakers, you have to win by two. Tomas Berdych would meet Rafael Nadal in the final, but first let's see who else took part.
That's Novak Djokovic serving as the Serb made his return at the event, but loses 10-6 in the first round to retired Australian star Lleyton Hewitt.
Nadal would make a mess of Lucas Pouille in the quarter-finals. The Spaniard seals a 10-1 win with that ace.
Hewitt would then push world number one Nadal to extra points, but Rafa prevails 13-11 to reach the final.
There he would face Berdych, and the Czech in the far court now has championship point, and he wins 10-5 when Nadal hits just wide. A good and clearly enjoyable warm-up event that makes Berdych 250,000 US dollars richer.