Schedule, appointments, broadcast in TV & Stream

Australian Open 2021: The first Grand Slam tournament of the year will start on February 8, 2021 and not, as originally planned, on January 18, 2021. Everything you need to know about participants, favorites, dates and schedule as well as the broadcast live on TV and You can find out about Stream here.

Australian Open 2021: Vom February 8-21, three weeks late, now finds that first Grand Slam tournament of the year 2021. This can be found in the updated schedule for the ATP Tour on December 16. The qualification has been moved to Doha and will take place from January 10th to 13th.

The current regulations regarding the corona pandemic in Australia made the postponement necessary. Since the state of Victoria would not have allowed players to enter the country until January instead of the usual beginning of December, and all players would have been quarantined for two weeks, the tournament participants would only have had a few days to prepare for the tournament on the original start date.

ATP chairman Andrea Gaudenzi: “Health and safety come first, while we master the other challenges. Under difficult circumstances in a great joint effort, the entire ATP plan was created.”

Here you will also find information on the schedule, dates, dates, times and live broadcasts on TV and stream.

Schedule & Dates: Australian Open 2021

The Australian Open lasts two weeks, with a single and a double competition as well as a mixed competition for men and women. In qualifying for the Australian Open, 16 places will be played for participation in the main draw of the tournament. There are also four lucky losers. The exact dates and the exact schedule will be scheduled soon.

Due to the security regulations in the state of Victoria in Australian, all players are obliged to a 14-day quarantine, which does not allow a start on January 18th. The tournament will therefore be held from February 8th to 21st. Between January 15 and 17, the professionals will travel to Australia with their support team and will be quarantined there. Training is allowed, the hotel should be allowed to leave for up to five hours. Multiple corona tests are also pending. The game is played in the three largest arenas Melbourne Arena (10,000 seats), Rod Laver Arena (14,820 seats) and Margaret Court Arena (7,500 seats), all of which have a lockable roof.

game schedule, Dates and dates of Australian Open 2021:

Two preparatory tournaments, Melbourne 1 and Melbourne 2, from January 31, 2021 to February 6, serve tennis professionals to prepare. In addition, an ATP Cup, a team competition with two singles and one doubles will take place from February 1st to 5th.

• qualification Australian Open: January 10-13, 2021 in Dubai
• Round 1: February 8, 2021 tba
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• Round 3: tba
• Round of 16 Australian Open: tba
• Quarter finals Australian Open: tba
• Semifinals Australian Open: tba
• Finale Australian Open: tba

Australian Open 2021 schedule: Dates, dates & times of the Grand Slam tournament

Australian Open 2021: broadcast live on TV & Stream. Also on free TV Eurosport?

Tennis fans can look forward to it. The Australian Open will also be broadcast live on TV & Stream in 2021. Eurosport As in previous years, it holds the exclusive live stream and TV rights. The individual tournaments can therefore open Eurosport1 and 2 as well as online in EurosportPlayer to be tracked.

Australian Open: time difference

The game days of the Australian Open are divided into day and night sessions. The time difference means that the day sessions of the Australian Open can usually be seen on television from 1 a.m. and the night sessions again from 9 a.m.

Australian Open: tournament, rules & special features

The Australian Open Grand Slam tournament has a number of special features. Not only that the tournament is divided into day and night tournaments, a so-called Heat Rule protects athletes from injury. As the hottest of the four Grand Slam tournaments, over 50 degrees Celsius are not uncommon on the tennis court floor. A special heat-resistant coating reduces the risk of blisters, shoe wear and injuries for tennis players. The five-point scale of the Heat Rule has been providing concrete recommendations for athletes since 2019. Depending on the temperature, humidity and wind strength, there are more breaks, the roof closes or the game is interrupted. From a scale value of 5, the Extreme Heat Policy it will be decided whether the games will be moved to the arenas.

The Shotlock means an increase in the time between serves. In Grand Slam tournaments this is increased from 20 to 25 seconds.

In the event that a main field player withdraws before the draw, e.g. B. due to a lack of fitness, he / she receives 50 percent of the prize money of the first round. The other 50 percent receives the Lucky Loserwho replaces the player.

Australian Open prize money

The total prize money at the Australian Open, which was distributed to the participants, amounted to 71 million Australian dollars in 2020, which corresponds to around 44.33 million euros.

Australian Open Sieger

The Australian Open is a prestigious tournament that is an absolute magnet for spectators. Millions of fans follow the Australian Open on TV. A total of 796,435 spectators attended the Australian Open. In 2020, the Serbian Novak Dokovic won the 108th Australian Open, which took place in Melbourne from January 20 to February 2, 2020, in the singles. In the women’s singles, the Japanese Naomi Osaka emerged as the winner of the Grand Slam tournament.

The men’s doubles were won by the French Herbert Pierre-Hugues and Mahut Nicolas, in the women’s category by the Australian Samantha Stosur and Zhang Shuai from China. In mixed, Barbora Krejcikova from the Czech Republic and the American tennis player Rajeev Ram won the Australian Open 2020.

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