Grand Slam Australian Open 2025

[Jatz]

This has been brutal for Birrell.

Awesome to see Jones play Rybakina. Still a long way behind but what an experience.

 

[errant bounce]

Whoever’s playing on 1373 is of no interest apparently, lots of empty seats yet huge queues on Court 3 and KIA arena!

Last year it was the other way 'round. went in to watch Aniismova on the first Sunday and you could walk in and out freely. this year it just took until a break to get into 1373 and when the next match started, a good third of the seats were empty. people obviously just see a line at one in the morning and the hype lingers all day.

The funniest thing is watching a match and some yobbo yells to the kid clipping the barriers on and off 'oh who's playing?!' like he's going to go oh shit, that' 77 ranked Swiss 28-year old journeywoman is playing a hot and cold Canadian who only got seeded through a PR' and rush in. do people expect to hear that 99 Agassi is playing '13 Djokovic out there?

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

Just letting everyone in this thread know there is also a dedicated thread for Round 1 if you want to check that out as well

Grand Slam - Australian Open 2025 Round 1

Day 2 Rod Laver Arena - Night [7] Novak Djokovic (Srb) v Nishesh Basavareddy (USA) Naomi Osaka (Jpn) v Caroline Garcia (Fra) Margaret Court Arena - Night Alexander Shevchenko (Kaz) v [3] Carlos Alcaraz (Spa) Daria Snigur (Ukr) v [10] Danielle Collins (USA) 7pm Jacob Fearnley...

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[eddiesmith]

Does anyone know if it’s cheaper to reserve a seat at Rod Laver inside Melbourne Park? I’d assume once inside the venue they wouldn’t be as expensive as you don’t need grounds access, but given most prices I’m probably wrong!!!

 

[Voula]

Just checking JCA tickets for tonight and they’re selling reserved seats up in the upper sections which I thought were accessed by ground passes. Seems they cutting it more and more .

Do you mean behind the court or on the sides? Last year all seats behind the court on JCA were ticketed, so with a ground pass we had to sit on the sides of the court.

My cousin was working at JCA yesterday and she said there were lots of disgruntled fans. For the Kyrgios session there was no virtual queuing. Instead tickets were allocated for Ground Pass ticket holders. Apparently they had to line up for a couple of hours to get a ticket to the twilight session. They weren't told this until they had to leave the arena for it to be cleaned and reset.

They have become so greedy. I don't know if this ticketing process was only because of the expected high interest in the Kyrgios match or if this is the ticketing process going forward now that they have split JCA into 2 sessions.

Nowadays if you have a ground pass then you have to go early and pick a court and stay there the whole day. Gone are the days when you can switch courts and watch whichever match you wanted.

 

[eddiesmith]

Do you mean behind the court or on the sides? Last year all seats behind the court on JCA were ticketed, so with a ground pass we had to sit on the sides of the court.

My cousin was working at JCA yesterday and she said there were lots of disgruntled fans. For the Kyrgios session there was no virtual queuing. Instead tickets were allocated for Ground Pass ticket holders. Apparently they had to line up for a couple of hours to get a ticket to the twilight session. They weren't told this until they had to leave the arena for it to be cleaned and reset.

They have become so greedy. I don't know if this ticketing process was only because of the expected high interest in the Kyrgios match or if this is the ticketing process going forward now that they have split JCA into 2 sessions.

Nowadays if you have a ground pass then you have to go early and pick a court and stay there the whole day. Gone are the days when you can switch courts and watch whichever match you wanted.

Thanks, it was behind the court and I had assumed all upper sections would be GA.

They were supposed to bring in virtual queues for JCA, but I believe it failed on day 1 so they seem to have canned it. Did see a few people showing attendants tickets on their phones, so not sure what the process is now for ground pass?