After almost an entire year without playing due to an injury, Rafael Nadal will make his official return to the circuit in the first week of January in Brisbane. And the tournament, a prelude to the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the course, does not want to miss such an opportunity: the price of tickets on the official sales channel has skyrocketed in recent days.
It was on December 1 when Nadal announced his return to the courts in an emotional video. “After a year away from competition, the time has come to return. It will be in Brisbane and it will be in the first week of January. See you there“said the 22-time Grand Slam champion. It was the message his fans had been waiting for for months.
Brisbane, the capital of the state of Queensland, was the place chosen by the former number one for his comeback. It is an ATP 250 that is a talisman for the Spaniard: the two times he played in Brisbane he would later reach the final of the Australian Open. The money that the event will pay Nadal for his cachet has not been revealed, but what is clear is that Brisbane has to amortize that million-dollar investment in some way..
That December 1, the day of the announcement, Relevo agreed to sell tickets on the tournament’s official channels: Tickets for the first day of competition, on December 31, started at 39 Australian dollars (24 euros at the current exchange rate), while tickets for the session in which Nadal will probably make his debut (afternoon session on January 1) started at 59 Australian dollars. The cheapest price for the final on Sunday, January 7, was 189 Australian dollars.
Two weeks later, prices have risen considerably: the same entry on December 31 has gone from 39 to 69 Australian dollars, an increase of 76%. Those from January 1 that cost 59 are now at 89 (50% more), while The one in the final that previously cost 189 Australian dollars now costs 240 (27% more).
A luxury frame for a 250
Brisbane, in the 250 category in the men’s category, the lowest in the professional circuit, It is one of the five previous tournaments before the Australian Open (January 15 to 29 in Melbourne) along with the United Cup, Hong Kong, Adelaide and Auckland. It will have a very powerful poster that does not have much to envy of some ATP 500.
In addition to Nadal, The men’s draw will feature names such as Holger Rune, Andy Murray, Ben Shelton and Grigor Dimitrov.. Matteo Berrettini, a Wimbledon finalist, will even play the preliminary phase of the competition. Novak Djokovic will play the United Cup that week, while Carlos Alcaraz will not play any tournament prior to the Australian Open.
In the women’s category the tournament is a WTA 500 and the draw is even more powerful. Aryna Sabalenka, number two in the ranking, will be the head of a poster with several Grand Slam champions as Elena Rybakina, Naomi Osaka, Victoria Azareka, Sloane Stephens, Sophia Kenin and Jelena Ostapenko.
Nacho Encabo is a sports editor at Relevo, a specialist in tennis and the Olympic Games. Born in Madrid, he studied Journalism and Audiovisual Communication at the Rey Juan Carlos University and began as an intern in the sports section of El Mundo in 2011. Knowing German shortly after opened the doors of the dpa agency, where he worked as a special envoy to the 2012 London Olympic Games and the 2014 Sochi Winter Games, the 2016 Euro Cup in France and the 2018 World Cup in Russia. In addition, adding Relay and the rest of his career, he has covered the four tennis Grand Slams, the Davis Cup , athletics world championships, Formula 1 Grand Prix and countless LaLiga and Champions League matches. He has also worked as a reporter at El Independiente and traveled to the Tokyo Olympics on the Spanish Olympic Committee team. …
2023-12-15 11:28:28
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