{"id":427538,"date":"2026-01-21T10:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/427538\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T10:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:39:07","slug":"radical-changes-planned-including-no-umpires-drone-food-delivery-pod-seating-and-hollywood-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/427538\/","title":{"rendered":"Radical changes planned including no umpires, drone food delivery, pod seating and Hollywood stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis Australia boss Craig Tiley\u2019s radical vision for the Australian Open of the future has no chair umpires or other officials on court, more Hollywood star power and seating pods with food and drink delivered by drones that could sell for $20,000 a ticket.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran administrator told a meeting of major Open sponsors on Wednesday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/life-and-luxury\/fashion-and-style\/naomi-osaka-s-dramatic-entrance-lights-up-australian-open-20260121-p5nvps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Naomi Osaka<\/a>\u2018s dramatic \u2013 and global buzz-generating \u2013 entrance to this year\u2019s event was just the start of a multi-year plan that could revolutionise the event \u2013 and outrage some of tennis\u2019 more conservative patrons.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis Australia boss Craig Tiley\u2019s radical vision for the Australian Open of the future has no chair umpires&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-427538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427538","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=427538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}