Australian tennis star Ash Barty won plenty of praise a week ago when she fronted the media after her shock, fourth-round loss at Wimbledon to American Alison Riske.
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"The sun's still going to come up tomorrow," the French Open champion said, with a little smile and all of the charm that has endeared her to tennis fans all over Australia and the globe.
There's a hint of irony about Barty saying the sun will rise because just up the road from where she made that statement in England, a cloud hovers over the most thrilling finish we've ever seen to a Cricket World Cup.
That New Zealand could be denied the trophy despite scoring the same amount of runs, and taking more wickets, than England defies belief.
The match was a classic, full of unforgettable moments as England and New Zealand both searched for their first World Cup title.
There's even more than a hint of irony that it was a New Zealand-born Englishman, Ben Stokes, guiding the Three Lions to "victory".
Stokes was caught on the boundary in the dying stages, only for Trent Boult to step on the rope, before he inadvertently ricocheted the ball to the fence while scampering for a second run, ultimately forcing the match into a "super over".
Despite both teams scoring 15 runs off the "super over", England was declared the winner, not because it was the higher ranked side after the preliminary matches, but because it scored more boundaries.
This just doesn't sit right.
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You could mount a case that New Zealand was more deserving because it crafted the same total through clever running and placement - not to mention the fact that it lost just eight wickets compared to England's 10.
At the Ovens and Murray Hall of Fame last week we heard the story of how Yarrawonga's players returned a 1000-pound bet to Myrtleford after the Pigeons won a 1960 final on the back of a contentious umpiring call.
The ICC won't hand the trophy to New Zealand now but we can only hope a fairer system is implemented by 2023.
The tournament went for 46 days, it wouldn't have hurt anyone to extend it by another 10 minutes to allow two more "super overs".
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