WASHINGTON, November 23, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) According to the Sydney Morning Herald, reporting Sunday, early February is emerging as the most likely time frame for the Australian Open to be played in 2021. However, the Grand Slam’s primary broadcaster, Australia’s […]
WASHINGTON, November 18, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) A day after Tennis Australia officials announced a consolidation of summer tournaments to be held in the state of Victoria as a means of combating coronavirus, word out of Australia now is that […]
WASHINGTON, November 17, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) On Monday, Australia’s tennis organizers decided on a detailed plan that will enable ATP and WTA events to go on as scheduled in the state of Victoria, home to the city of Melbourne […]
MELBOURNE, August 2, 2020 (Australian Open Press Release) Australian Open 2020 delivered record economic benefits to Victoria according to a new Neilson Sports report, as well as attracting the biggest global broadcast audience in the history of the tournament. Melbourne’s Grand […]
WASHINGTON, July 27, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) According to a report in Melbourne daily The Age, Tennis Australia chief executive Craig Tiley has decided on how he plans to run next year’s Australian Open: by reducing the number of spectators and […]
WASHINGTON, May 7, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) Tennis Australia chief executive and Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley has conceded that next year’s annual summer of tennis “will be compromised” as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic, which has […]
Australian Open Press Release, April 25, 2020 Alex de Minaur and Alexei Popyrin have faced off against each other in an exclusive eSports match of the AO Tennis 2 game as part of an exclusive preview of the new AO Tennis Series eSports competition, set to commence next […]
WASHINGTON, April 3, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) In retrospect, Tennis Australia CEO Craig Tiley’s 14-word, 80-character tweet posted on his Twitter page Thursday was one he probably wished hadn’t been necessary. Yet, it succinctly summed up his own feelings and those […]
WASHINGTON, February 4, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) On a perfect night for tennis in Melbourne, with clear skies and an open roof in Rod Laver Arena, Novak Djokovic won his seventeenth Grand Slam singles title with a five-set victory over […]
October 16, 2024
September 11, 2024
September 4, 2024
