Dominguez Lino, 34, has played in just one WTA Tour main draw this year, but has lifted her ranking up close to the top 100 again by winning a lot of matches at smaller tournaments.
In keeping with the responsible persona that won over grandmas across the country during his Idol run, McCreery is currently finishing college at North Carolina State University and using his summer breaks to go on tour.
In his autobiography The Breaks Are Off, for example, published two years ago at the start of an England one-day international tour of India, he caused a stir with his appraisal of Kevin Pietersen's lack of aptitude for captaincy.
On an overcast day at the end of October, I clambered into Murphy's battered Mitsubishi pickup for a tour of the Forest of Bowland where Hope and Sky had vanished.
He is the author of a book on the Akhal-Teke breed and took Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on a horseback tour of a giant complex for 400 of the horses outside the capital Ashgabat last year.
"If I were the commissioner of the Tour, every single caddie that next week would have had new credentials that allowed clubhouse access.
Seeking to address that very problem, Harms and his fellow caddies last year identified one so-called injustice – the sponsor-filled bibs every caddie wears, sans payment – and asked the Tour to remedy the situation.
Here's our own cycling doyen Will Fotheringham with his preview of today's stage: The Tour won't be won in Steel City but one of the favourites could lose it here, as the series of short steep climbs and some abrupt, narrow and very technical descents – equally difficult, particularly if the roads are wet – will make for a demanding finale, where a crash or a puncture could be very costly.
The current stop of the tour, at Coventry's Belgrade theatre, stirs up particular memories: "The last time I did this play here was in rep in 1974," he says.
Each morning, Mirvish gave away "gifts" to the first few customers through the doors (to this day, a determined and shivering few line up at 6am on the corner of Bloor and Bathurst to claim their free tuning fork or toaster), as well as dollar bills to the poor and turkeys before Thanksgiving and Christmas.
"Most of those for the Thanksgiving supply have already been grown and are in good supply – and most have already been contracted for with wholesalers for the retail market".
