{"id":418141,"date":"2026-01-20T06:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/418141\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T06:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:05:09","slug":"chris-oconnell-v-nishesh-basavareddy-dane-sweeny-v-gael-monfils-elena-ryabinka-v-kaja-juvan-jannik-sinner-v-hugo-gaston-day-3-tennis-scores-draws-players-tips-matches-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/418141\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris O\u2019Connell v Nishesh Basavareddy, Dane Sweeny v Ga\u00ebl Monfils, Elena Ryabinka v Kaja Juvan, Jannik Sinner v Hugo Gaston, day 3 tennis scores, draws, players, tips, matches, how to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis Australia CEO Craig Tiley confirmed organisers opened up another exit at the Australian Open to combat lengthy queues.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on 3AW this afternoon, Tiley said a two-hour wait time \u201cis not something you want at any event\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Huge crowd numbers have flocked to Melbourne Park for the 2026 Australian Open.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1665a329d9f35d2711a8bd44e4f0186bbe30b4b3.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Huge crowd numbers have flocked to Melbourne Park for the 2026 Australian Open.Credit: Joe Armao<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found a way and managed to open up another part of the site, which was another entry and so that over the next three, four days will definitely alleviate some of the pressure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Tiley said the additional entrance was near Richmond station.<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, Tiley was pressed on reports fans did not get a chance to see any tennis on Monday due to long queues to get into courts<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook I mean I haven\u2019t heard those reports,\u201d Tiley said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been over 60 matches that we showcased yesterday. So we would expect there would be an opportunity to either get live [tennis], if not being able to enjoy the activities on the big screen as well.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>When quizzed on the capacity of Melbourne Park, Tiley said Tennis Australia could pause when necessary ground passes to ensure \u201cwe\u2019re not in a situation where fans aren\u2019t having a good experience\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis Australia CEO Craig Tiley confirmed organisers opened up another exit at the Australian Open to combat lengthy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-418141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}