{"id":268834,"date":"2025-11-07T13:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/268834\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T13:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:08:12","slug":"billionaire-investor-marc-lasry-sees-huge-opportunity-for-innovation-in-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/268834\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire investor Marc Lasry sees \u2018huge opportunity\u2019 for innovation in tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Billionaire investor Marc Lasry believes professional tennis is \u201cripe for disruption\u201d, and revealed he had discussed ideas for innovation with the sport\u2019s officials.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Speaking on the sidelines of the South China Morning Post\u2019s Family Business Summit 2025 on Friday, Lasry said he thought leading figures in the game were open to change.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI have talked to the folks there, and we are trying to do a couple of things,\u201d he told the Post at the Rosewood Hong Kong hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui, before taking part in a panel discussion on how owners are building sports empires.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Global sport\u2019s ultimate disrupter, LIV Golf, this week ceded to the establishment when it switched its tournaments from 54 holes to the traditional 72. In football, plans for a European Super League hit fierce resistance from fans as soon as they were aired in 2021.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But Lasry, the former co-owner of NBA franchise the Milwaukee Bucks, said the potential for disruption in sport still existed, even if \u201cit really is very hard\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Marc Lasry attended the Post\u2019s Family Business Summit at the Rosewood Hotel. Photo: Jonathan Wong\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0c8ee597-61b6-419a-86b0-091cc5859bbe_51e85161.jpg\" title=\"Marc Lasry attended the Post\u2019s Family Business Summit at the Rosewood Hotel. Photo: Jonathan Wong\"\/>Marc Lasry attended the Post\u2019s Family Business Summit at the Rosewood Hotel. Photo: Jonathan Wong<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tentative moves to introduce tennis to new audiences have included the Ultimate Tennis Showdown, a shorter, faster format that came to Hong Kong for a tournament last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billionaire investor Marc Lasry believes professional tennis is \u201cripe for disruption\u201d, and revealed he had discussed ideas for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[66241,1724,64,63,156619,1186,156624,156622,49838,156621,10340,10599,66240,14239,53573,156620,590,1614,756,156623,28765,85,747,9244,82976],"class_list":["post-268834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alibaba-group","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-avenue-sports-fund","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baypickle","tag-bristol-city","tag-como","tag-family-business-summit","tag-hong-kong","tag-ipswich-town","tag-joe-tsai","tag-liv-golf","tag-macau","tag-marc-lasry","tag-nba","tag-premier-league","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-sailgp","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tiger-woods","tag-ultimate-tennis-showdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}