Published on January 6, 2025 at 5:16 p.m. / Modified on January 6, 2025 at 6:44 p.m.
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Even though it rained a little this Monday, even though the temperature was almost cool for the season, far from the 34°C expected on Saturday, Melbourne Park is always enchanting at the start of the year. It’s the southern summer, the heart of the summer holidays, the glass and steel district of the Central Business District seems to be dozing, and the muddy waters of the Yarra River meander lazily among the eucalyptus trees. From Flinders Street station, in Victorian style but in saffron color, the path which leads on foot to the site of the Australian Open tennis tournament is a farandole of games, music, water points, decoration in lagoon blue plastic and volunteers distributing factor 50 sunscreen.
It’s good to live there, it’s good to linger, but for many Swiss players, the tennis “Summer Festival”, from January 12 to 26, will end before it really begins. Of the 12 Swiss representatives entered in Melbourne, nine must go through the qualifying event, a tournament before the tournament which requires winning three matches (in two winning sets) in order to earn the right to enter the main draw, where currently Belinda Bencic, Stan Wawrinka and Dominic Stricker.
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