All eyes on Anna in Trilogy thriller

THOSE of us who rarely, if ever, have the chance of watching the world’s top players in action delighted in last night’s action at the Trilogy Tennis Challenge at the RDS.

Indeed, one colleague was so impressed with the performance of one time world number one Lindsay Davenport in beating the Swiss girl Barbara Schett that he asked what chance the Williams sisters (who will be in doubles action here tonight) would have against their male equivalents.

“There is no comparison,” she responded unequivocally, as Ms Schett emphatically nodded her agreement. “Men’s tennis, women’s tennis, two separate things that you can never compare. It wouldn’t be close.”