Although the Australian Open is over, the controversial topic of this year's Australian Open is not over, especially the choice between tradition and traffic, which has ushered in new problems for the Australian Open tournament side.
When it comes to the Australian Open, many people have always referred to it as the Grand Slam of Joy, and in addition to the timing of the event just stuck in the core time node of the New Year, the changes in venues and facilities have added countless joyful elements to this Grand Slam tournament at the beginning of the year.
But everyone suddenly found that although the joy of this year's Australian Open is still there, more problems have also arisen, and even some fans and netizens have said that the 2025 Australian Open has been invaded by anger from beginning to end.
Court 6 is the most talked about venue this year, and it goes beyond the traditional course with the addition of a terraced bar that makes the course look more like a party scene.
Although Court 6 was full of laughter during the match, the fans and spectators were too crazy, which became one of the most criticized topics at this year's Australian Open. For example, the large-scale riots that took place, and the confrontation scenes formed by fans, spectators and the media, were a headache for the Australian Open tournament at that time.
In addition, because Court 6 was too close to Court 8, when the two matches were played simultaneously, Aliassime and Fokina, who were playing at Pitch 8 at the time, were very dissatisfied.
At that time, the two met in the second round and fought hard to compete for a promotion spot, but because Court 6 was too noisy, Aliciam and Fokina were too disturbed, and they had to "boycott" the game in the middle of the game, and immediately approached the tournament director Terry to ask for a quiet stadium, otherwise the game would not be able to continue.
As soon as this was announced, it quickly caused an uproar in public opinion, because the players were in the middle of the match, and the request for a temporary change of venue is really very rare at the Australian Open. When the Australian Open tournament finally agreed to Aliassime and Fokina's request to change the venue, some fans and netizens humorously dubbed it "the two enjoyed a privilege".
If anger from players can be resolved with appeasement, then venting anger on players is really a tricky thing for the Australian Open tournament side, after all, the audience is God and cannot be easily offended.
The anger of the audience, which was mainly reflected in two things at this year's Australian Open.
First, the semifinals of the German semifinals against Zverev Jr., after just playing the first set tie-break, the Serbian king finally couldn't hold on due to the aggravation of the injury and had to choose to retire.
It stands to reason that the player's withdrawal due to injury has long been a part of the tennis game, and the audience has become accustomed to it, and should be the most able to understand the helplessness of the player. ”
Another incident occurred at the award ceremony on the last match day of the Australian Open.
The audience targeted Zlev Jr. and flashed out the names of the two ex-girlfriends who were abused by him on the spot, which made the German celebrity very embarrassed; And because of the drug ban scandal, Sinner also sent boos to the new generation of hardcourt kings, which became the talk of many people after dinner. It seems to be the first time in the history of the Australian Open that the champion and runner-up of the Australian Open have fallen into such extreme embarrassment at the same time.
"I think it's so disrespectful." Former world No. 1 and Australian tennis legend Raft talked about the current chaotic situation of the Australian Open, although he thought that such a thing had happened a few years ago, but so many things have happened this year, it really made him unbearable, so he stepped forward to say justice to the troubled players.
And another former professional player, John Alexander, chose to directly bombard this chaos, "There is a part of the audience that is quite rude these days, and they sometimes come here purely to cause trouble. ”
It is not difficult to see from the relevant remarks of the two tennis insiders that this year's Australian Open has been full of anger from beginning to end, all due to the fact that the Australian Open tournament side is too bold to seek innovation and change for the sake of traffic, but I didn't expect the traffic to come up, and a series of problems that have been criticized by the outside world have also come.
According to relevant media reports, this year's Australian Open traffic hit a new record high. At the end of the last matchday last year, the number of spectators was 1020763, and this year, without counting the last matchday spectators, the number of spectators has exceeded 1.1 million, which is still quite a significant increase.
Of course, for the Australian Open tournament side, more people come to Melbourne Park and walk into the spectator seats in the venue, which means giving them money, tennis as a commercial sport, is originally a business, naturally the more people the better, and the more people the event party earns. It's just that there are so many problems this year, and it also puts forward a stern challenge to the event organizers, when the traffic is bursting, should the original tradition be retained? If you want to find a good balance between tradition and traffic, it seems that it is really difficult to have a good solution to this problem from the current situation!(Source: Tennis House Author: Starry Sky of Moon River)