{"id":181285,"date":"2026-02-26T13:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/181285\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:54:14","slug":"tennis-stars-can-blow-off-steam-in-rage-room-at-austin-event-shang-tries-it-out-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/181285\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis stars can blow off steam in rage room at Austin event, Shang tries it out in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A WTA tournament in Texas has unveiled \u2060a \u201crage room\u201d for \u2060players to take out \u2060their frustrations away from the cameras after Coco Gauff\u2019s racquet-smashing outburst at the Australian Open last month sparked debate about privacy at tournaments.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Shortly after Gauff\u2019s 59-minute quarter-final loss \u200cto Elina Svitolina at Melbourne Park, the American went to the match call area and repeatedly smashed her racquet on the ground, unaware that it was being broadcast to viewers around the world.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Novak Djokovic and Iga Swiatek were among the players \u2060calling for more privacy off the court following the incident.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The ATX \u200cOpen in Austin, Texas, has come up with a solution.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIntroducing the ATX Open rage room \u2013 the first of \u200cits kind \u2013 where players can privately express frustration or emotion \u2060in a \u2060safe, camera-free environment,\u201d the WTA 250 tournament posted on its social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The post \u200calso featured a sign with the words \u201cdon\u2019t smile\u201d and \u201ccount to three\u201d along with a broken \u200cracquet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A WTA tournament in Texas has unveiled \u2060a \u201crage room\u201d for \u2060players to take out \u2060their frustrations away&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[68869,132,134,133,72661,72666,72662,72670,72669,72665,72667,72668,27,72663,72664],"class_list":{"0":"post-181285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-atx-open","9":"tag-austin","10":"tag-austin-headlines","11":"tag-austin-news","12":"tag-australian-open","13":"tag-coco-gauff","14":"tag-dubai-tennis-championships","15":"tag-elina-svitolina","16":"tag-iga-swiatek","17":"tag-jerry-shang-juncheng","18":"tag-melbourne-park","19":"tag-novak-djokovic","20":"tag-texas","21":"tag-wta","22":"tag-wta-tournament"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}