Rennae Stubbs is an Australian professional female tennis player. She has won several Grand Slam doubles titles. Tennis balls This article is about the sport, tennis. ...
Stubbs was 25, which is "old, in the terms of", as she puts it, when she had her first lesbian encounter, but she had long wondered, and thought "maybe".
Stubbs is a milkman's daughter who at 16 left the family home in Sydney's Clovelly to live at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, and farewelled Australia at the age of 25 to pursue her career in the United States.
Stubbs was in Zurich in 2004 for Molik's finals defeat of Maria Sharapova, a major milestone in the South Australian's surge into the top 10, and back there again last year when Molik left the court in tears, unable to complete what may be her final match on the WTA Tour.
Stubbs says she supported Dokic to help counter her father's brutal ways, advising her to seek help to protect her money from Damir's grasping hands, and changing her schedule to partner the troubled teenager at the Canadian Open before the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
Stubbs, then the world No.1 in doubles, recalls arriving in Montreal only to be told by Damir - as a reluctant Jelena interpreted - that his daughter had been injured in her first-round singles loss and would be returning home to Florida.
Meanwhile, Stubbs is very concerned about her great friend Alicia Molik and the prospect of her returning from the illness that has sidelined her indefinitely.
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