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© Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Australian Open: Did the Happy Slam become the Angry Slam? Or is tennis just changing?
By HOWARD FENDRICH MELBOURNE, Australia©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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browny1
Having a party is one excuse - but I think it's more to do with the keyboard/SNS Warrior mentality migrating from the virtual world to the real world.
Any day at Anytime I can "Give it" to people on line from world leaders to entertainers to scientists to Anybody.
Why should my right be Any different live at a sports tournament.
"Tennis ain't sacred", they will say or "Just joking having fun" or "What are you - woke" etc.
Sure the world evolves - that's great - who'd want to be stuck in some antiquated time warp.
But there's no reason "entitled boisterous-ism" should be granted set and match over civility.
Speed
The audience AND the players have dropped in class and civility. I'm constantly seeing temper tantrums and smashing of rackets draped in the excuse that they are "being passionate about their game." Nonsense. It looks and is childish.
The audiences have also started to butt into the games that previously was seen as uncouth as far at fan-etiquette was concerned.
We need to see class and dignity on the courts if we also want to see it in the stands.