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50Q
Willie Hetaraka,
India rugby coach
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What are you reading currently?
• ‘Women of the Raj’ by Margaret Macmillan. It describes the lives of British ladies during the Raj, but the most striking aspect is that the Indian ladies come across as very tough individuals
The one athlete you’d pay to watch?
• Michael Jordan, because he epitomises an athlete and legend who could come back from all setbacks in his life and still stay the best.
Your favourite superstition?
• At all big games, I sip Powerade or something during timeouts, as though I am playing myself. If I can imagine I’m there, I can make the tough calls well.
Your most embarrassing moment?
• As a young cop in New Zealand, I had to inform a lady that her daughter was killed in an accident and take her to identify the body. But we’d reached the wrong address, so when the lady realised it wasn’t her daughter and yelped in joy, I wish I had shrunk and disappeared at that moment…
If you weren’t a rugby coach you’d have been…
• A cricketer and tormented the Indians! Or, a tourist guide taking people around to the best ice-cream places in Auckland. 
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Number Game
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| $40,000Serena’s fetish, Sania’s sweat and toil. Williams’ style statement at the US Open this year, the platinum and 13-carat diamond chandelier earrings were worth the sum. But indulgence was the amount Sania pocketed after almost four hours, six long sets and bleeding toes, to reach the third round
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England vs Australia,
Fifth Ashes Test,
The Oval
Thursday, September 8
Live on Star Sports, 3 p.m.
It’s a close one between this and Sania’s fourth-round match. But we know who’s playing whom in the Ashes, and we know the time, and we all know what could happen if Australia lose…
The odds favour England but you write off
Oz at your peril
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The Write Stuff
I’VE GOT YOUR BACK
The sequel to Winning Ugly
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by Brad Gilbert, the poker-faced coach of America’s two showmen and once-No 1’s Andre Agassi and Andy Roddick, gives an insider’s account of the tour and the drama at the US Open
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Sport Speak
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Tim Henman’s made a few jokes — he’s mentioned the cricket a few times. I still think we’ll find a way to win that fifth Test
Lleyton Hewitt puts on a brave face as Australia await their trial by fire in the Ashes
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