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18 Jan 2018

Australian Open is #Open4All

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Last week, the Australian Open named tennis legend and tireless human rights campaigner Billy Jean King as Tennis Australia’s Woman of the Year at a special event during #BetterTogether2018.

At the event, Australian Open director Craig Tiley announced ‘Open4All’, a wide-ranging equality, diversity and inclusion initiative that will be brought to life during this year’s tournament.

OPEN4All includes a series of special events designed to celebrate the intrinsic fairness and equality of tennis, which welcomes everyone regardless of their race, gender, sexuality or ability.

We speak to him and asked if such a strong message of inclusion from the sport was spurred on by the comments of Margret Court last year, where she voiced her controversial views on the LGBTI communities, and on same sex marriage.

This segment aired on The Informer on JOY 94.9 on 18th January 2018.

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