"If my child was a ball kid for a tournament, they’re coming home at 5 in the morning, as a parent, I’m snapping at that. It’s not beneficial for them. It’s not beneficial for the umpires, the officials. I don’t think it’s amazing for the fans. It’s not good for the players. We talk about it all the time. It’s been spoken about for years. When you start the night matches late and have conditions like that, these things are going to happen.”
"At this point there is no need to change the schedule. We will always look at it, when we do the (tournament) debrief – like we do every year. It was an epic match and when you schedule a match like that just before 10(pm) in the evening before you’re not expecting it to go close to six hours. When you have 25 sessions, two weeks, hundreds of thousands of people coming through the gate, all the best players in the world here, you’re going to have those moments.
"There are so many variables. Over the last few days we have had extreme heat, we’ve had over five breaks of rain, we’ve had cold and those are – it’s Melbourne you but don’t often get those conditions in such a short period of time so we’ve had three late nights with scheduling trying to catch up with matches.”
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