{"id":454002,"date":"2026-02-02T17:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/454002\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T17:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:36:11","slug":"collingwood-magpies-open-to-january-relocation-to-help-australian-open-tennis-tournament-grow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/454002\/","title":{"rendered":"Collingwood Magpies open to January relocation to help Australian Open tennis tournament grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe have a strong working relationship with Craig Tiley and his team at Tennis Australia, John Harnden and his team at Melbourne Park and the State Government, and any proposal would be progressed collaboratively with all key stakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tiley, the AO chief executive, said on Saturday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5nymj\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he had ambitions to radically expand<\/a> and be innovative with the tournament\u2019s next stage. Plans included an interactive glass court and an immersive dome with 270-degree screens.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Collingwood\u2019s Jordan De Goey enjoying a training run at Olympic Park last September.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/32762812eb46552decca8e66282a95298053c5d7.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Collingwood\u2019s Jordan De Goey enjoying a training run at Olympic Park last September.Credit: Joe Armao<\/p>\n<p>Tiley proposed a \u201ctranslucent dome over the whole precinct\u201d akin to what they have in Dallas, US, as a weather protection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s an oval on the other side of Gosch\u2019s Paddock, AAMI Park, the MCG, these are good pieces of land and property, which we would look at and expand into,\u201d Tiley said.<\/p>\n<p>Pressed further about the vision on Monday, Tiley confirmed Tennis Australia would work with Collingwood to assess options.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve [Collingwood] been fantastic with communicating what the options are,\u201d Tiley said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, there\u2019s pre-season training, and we don\u2019t want to disrupt any of that, but there is a way to use more of that precinct and the facilities they have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>with Hannah Kennelly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe have a strong working relationship with Craig Tiley and his team at Tennis Australia, John Harnden and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-454002","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\/454002","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=454002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}