Australian Open tournament director Paul McNamee today dismissed as “very unlikely” suggestions that tennis may look into adopting cricket-style video umpires to rid the game of questionable line-calls.

Venus Williams will be seeded number three at the Australian Open later this month, despite not having played a competitive match for six months.

Australian Open tournament director Paul McNamee insisted today that drugs are not a problem in tennis, despite revelations that Greg Rusedski has tested positive for nandrolone.