Sport is a great opportunity for journalists to test their news writing skills. Writing sport employs the same principles as news, business, entertainment or any other kind of journalism writing.
It has been a long time since I've covered any big-time tennis. However, I'll have to brush up pretty quick because some star names are coming to Kuala Lumpur.
I'm down to cover two exhibition matches: Roger Federer v Pete Sampras and Raphael Nadal v Richard Gasquet.
After both matches, the players will be required to attend post-match interviews with all the media.
I've been told that I would have five minutes one-to-one with each player. So, I'll have to prepare some good questions.
Reuters have already told me what line of questioning they want, which I can't reveal at the moment.
However, my experience of these types of interviews tells me not to expect much.
These players are there on appearance money and may not want to say anything too controversial for fear of upsetting sponsors.
But you never know. Because there are no ranking points at stake, they may be a bit more relaxed and decide to let everything out.
Also, there is the possibility that my "five minutes" may never happen, as I've experienced in the past. Injuries or flight delays can easily be drawn upon as an excuse to get out of an interview.
In any case, I'm looking forward to some good tennis and trying to use the news writing techniques that I recommend to churn out my article.
Tune in on Nov. 24 and I'll tell you what happened.
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