During the course of the day: I watched the left-handed American, Roscoe Tanner, easily win the first set of an eventual three-set match in a round of the Australian Open, from Kooyong, in which he played Australian Phil Dent; listened to Sue Smith, of Channel Nine’s “A Current Affair”, being interviewed by the radio personality, Keith McGowan, and tell of the loss of her four-year-old son, and of how she tried for seven years to have another child, before doing so; bought a bottle of Mateus Rose, at Epping, for $2.99; and at 8.30 p.m., on “World Masters’ Snooker” — sponsored by Berger paints — from the Seymour Centre, in Sydney, watched the young, tall and seemingly modest Canadian Cliff Thorburn defeat his Welsh opponent, Ray Reardon, by 135 points to 87, over two frames.