Australian Open 2024 to deliver followers nearer to the motion than ever earlier than | 11 October, 2023 | All Information | Information and Options | Information and Occasions

An Opening Week filled with tennis, leisure and enjoyable, together with the beautiful new AO Courtside Bar, are simply a number of the Australian Open’s massive and daring plans to deliver followers nearer to the motion than ever earlier than. 

Launched in 2023, Opening Week was designed to solidify the AO as a three-week competition of sport and leisure. For AO 2024 will probably be even greater and higher, providing an expanded program of occasions and extra alternatives for followers to get nearer to their heroes as they put together for the primary Grand Slam of the yr.  

“We’re trying ahead to a three-week extravaganza of tennis and leisure, with Opening Week bringing followers nearer to the motion than ever and giving unprecedented entry to the highest gamers as we lead right into a historic Sunday begin,” Australian Open Match Director Craig Tiley defined.  

“Throughout Opening Week, followers can sit within the entrance row of Rod Laver Area and watch the world’s greatest gamers put together for the AO, wander the positioning and see the expertise of tomorrow preventing by qualifying matches on the outside courts, and revel in a style of all of the enjoyable and pleasure that makes the AO totally different. 

“Hundreds of racquets can be given away to youngsters and households, the vastly in style Youngsters Tennis Day offered by Emirates returns on Saturday 13 January, and keep tuned for extra information quickly on a sequence of exhibition and charity matches with big-name gamers.” 

The custom of making spectacular and distinctive experiences for gamers and followers continues, with Melbourne Park as soon as once more redesigned for AO 2024.  

“We’re very excited to launch the AO Courtside Bar, a double-storey bar overlooking Court docket 6 with a capability of greater than 400. We suspect it will shortly develop into often known as the ‘Celebration Court docket’, and it’s a mannequin we’d prefer to broaden throughout the positioning in future,” Tiley continued.

“Growing shade throughout the precinct has been an vital a part of our technique for a few years and we’ve upped it exponentially for subsequent January. Simply as this yr we launched the beautiful ‘butterfly wings’ shade construction on Grand Slam Oval, in 2024 we’ll once more double the shade onsite with the set up of stylish pavilions set throughout the enduring lawns of Backyard Sq., offering a soothing and comfy house for everybody. 

“Sunday 14 January can be a blockbuster day and evening, that includes the perfect of Melbourne because the AO kicks off on a Sunday for the primary time. Particular performances can be staged earlier than the evening session at RLA and we sit up for offering a shocking showcase for our nice metropolis.  

“As all the time, we sit up for honouring our Aussie tennis legends all through the AO. Evonne Goolagong Cawley celebrates 50 years since her first AO win in 1974 and her picture will function on the coin used earlier than matches on the AO and all Summer time of Tennis occasions throughout January. Roy Emerson can be again for the sixtieth anniversary of his third Australian Open title in 1964, and we’re delighted to announce that Lleyton Hewitt can be inducted into the Australian Tennis Corridor of Fame at a particular ceremony previous to the evening session on Wednesday 24 January.