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Rohit Brijnath

Assistant Sports Editor

Brijnath was a journalist in India and Australia before joining The Straits Times in 2007. He writes primarily on sport and has covered seven Olympics, six Asian Games and more than 30 Grand Slam tennis events. He has co-authored a book with Olympic shooting champion Abhinav Bindra and writes an occasional Sunday column on books, his mother’s garden, friendship and any whimsical thing that catches his attention. In his spare time, he dreams of climbing Everest.

Latest articles

Fifty years after Nadia Comaneci’s 10, athletes are still chasing perfection

Former Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci poses with her Life Achievement Award during the 27th Laureus World Sports Awards gala in Madrid on April 20, 2026.

The Aussie with flying feet: Gout Gout is 18 and seriously fast

Gout Gout of Australia poses with fans after winning the 100m final of the Australian Athletics Junior Championships on April 18.

We’re drawn to sports in mysterious ways. Even to ho-hum pickleball

The writer is not a big pickleball fan but accepts the lure of different sports for different people.

Rory McIlroy, the majestic maverick, Masters himself when it matters

Right to the end, Rory McIlroy fought the course and himself on his way to victory at the Masters.

Tradition, like at the Masters, is one of the great seductions of sport

BRIDGING GENERATIONS: American player Sam Burns crosses the Hogan Bridge at Augusta National which was dedicated to the legendary golfer Ben Hogan in 1958.

$50 million matters only if Singapore football builds something worthy with it

Singapore football officials must take the $50 million and turn the country's love for the sport into something wide and wonderful.

A hot day, a cool pro, a golf lesson in the rungs of talent

Gregory Foo of Singapore, who plays on the Asian Tour,  once had a round of six birdies and one eagle.

The things we don’t see in sport? The painful, uplifting struggle of practice

In practice, Singapore's Gan Ching Hwee sometimes does 10 sets of 300m at full pace. The result: “If my legs could scream, they would.”

The testing world of Carlos Alcaraz: Everyone brings their best against him

Carlos Alcaraz lost in Miami after being unable to solve the challenge of Sebastian Korda.

Sincerely, David: A writer of letters from a world that is passing

How a charming stranger and the writer developed a fellowship shaped by the written word.