After featuring her recollections as Australian Tennis Magazine editor in Part 1, we return this week for the second part of our interview with Suzi Petkovski – focusing on the Australian Open. Petkovski first attended the event as a fan in its Kooyong days and would later work at the tournament before it relocated to Flinders Park – now known as Melbourne Park – in 1988. Petkovski recalls how significant this move was at the time, and how the AO’s new home helped the tournament evolve into the global powerhouse it is today.

Listen to Part 1: Suzi Petkovski (Part 1): a revered Australian voice in the game and self-described tennis tragic 

Read Petkovski’s recollections of the Evert-Navratilova AO 1988 semifinal: AO Flashback: Evert scores last AO win over great rival Navratilova | AO