Australian Open 2015: the highlights of everybody's favourite grand slam

By Peter Hanlon
Updated February 25 2015 - 10:33am, first published February 1 2015 - 6:51pm

The 2015 Australian Open offered up the odd surprise – 11 locals reaching the second round, Venus Williams reaching the quarter-finals at 34, fluorescent pyjamas becoming the height of fashion. Yet there was to much of the tournament a sense that Planet Tennis remains a predictable place to inhabit.