Xinhua News Agency, Sydney, October 9 (reporter Hao Yalin) the organizing committee of the Australian Open recently released a message that the total amount of Australian net bonuses will increase to 60.5 million Australian dollars (1 Australian dollar is about 4.89 yuan) in 2019, it is 10% higher than the total bonus of 55 million this year.
In addition, the Australian Open will introduce a series of new measures in 2019. For example, all competitions take 25 seconds serve timing, 16 venues are equipped with electronic playback systems, and the number of women’s qualifying players has increased from 96 to 128.
“My team spent a year discussing with players, coaches and their teams to understand what they value, what they like and what changes they want to see.” Craig Terry, director of Australian Netcom, said.
In 2018, many famous generals such as Williams, Murray, Kei Nishikori and Azarenka announced to withdraw from the competition due to injuries or various reasons, Nadal, the performance of players such as Jiao Kovic is also affected to varying degrees due to injuries. Terry said that he expected many generals to return to the Australian tennis court after experiencing injuries or low status.