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When the Australian Open begins on Monday, Covid permitting, a new chapter will be written in the annals of the country s major international sporting event.
As always there will be winners and losers, miraculous victories and hard-fought losses but, true to form, the Australian Open will also toss up inspirational unknowns and infuriating loudmouths who will capture the rapt attention of a fickle public for two weeks before being largely forgotten for the next 12 months.
Because, the Australian Open is about a lot more than serves, backhands and cross-court volleys. To the once-a-year tennis aficionados drawn to its celebrity glow like moths to a flame, it is about personalities and glamour, battlers and bullies, heroes and villains.
Victorian sports minister Martin Pakula said crowds would be at about 50 per cent of previous years, with 30,000 allowed through the gates each day for the first eight days.
Victorian sports minister Martin Pakula said crowds would be at about 50 per cent of previous years, with 30,000 allowed through the gates each day for the first eight days.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) The last group of quarantined players in Melbourne ahead of the Australian Open and a week of tuneup tournaments was set to leave their hotels at midnight Saturday.