Nine’s Australian Open coverage dominates the night… and early morning

As Matchbox Twenty frontman Rob Thomas once sang, “It’s 3am, I must be watching the tennis.”

As last night turned into this morning, and then into whatever the hell you call 3:30am, the strangest thing happened.

I, along with thousands of Australians, remained glued to the television, unable to lift my overtired body up the stairs and into the hyperbaric oxygen chamber I bought from the Michael Jackson estate – despite knowing full well I had to get up and work in the morning.

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