{"id":360666,"date":"2024-01-17T18:31:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T19:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=360666"},"modified":"2024-01-17T22:03:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T22:03:18","slug":"disturbing-crowd-act-makes-star-uncomfortable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=360666","title":{"rendered":"'Disturbing' crowd act makes star 'uncomfortable'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian tennis player Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova<\/a> has slammed the Australian Open<\/a>'s new \ufeffCourtside Bar, after she had patrons reportedly "meow" at her during the second round match on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

Pavlyuchenkova went down 6-2, 6-3 to Spain's Paula Badosa in the second round of the tournament, with the match on Court 6 proving a cahllenge in more ways than one for the 32-year-old.<\/p>\n

The new Courtside Bar allows patrons to move freely during play\ufeff, with less restrictions than a normal court, where spectators can only move around at certain times.<\/p>\n

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For \ufeffPavlyuchenkova, her experience was far from a positive one.<\/p>\n

"It was super loud, like in the restaurant basically, people talking and eating and drinking. I don't know if they even watched the match," Pavlyuchenkova told UK outlet inews<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Anastasia<\/p>\n

"There were a couple of guys, I think they got drunk and they started to scream and meow (at me), I think maybe because I have this tattoo on my leg (which reads meow) or just because of course they had some drinks and so it was really disturbing.<\/p>\n

"It was not nice to be honest. I was really annoyed at the start of the match. I have no problem playing on the outside courts, but this one was special in terms of the noise and also the court."<\/p>\n

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Music is also played at a low level throughout the bar during matches, which seemed to throw \ufeffPavlyuchenkova off even more.<\/p>\n

\"Anastasia<\/p>\n

"I was actually thinking during the match, 'what was the idea behind it?'," Pavlyuchenkova said.<\/p>\n

"Yeah OK, maybe of course, for the fans, it's super fun for them. But tennis is a special sport in a way.<\/p>\n

"It's not like baseball, or other sports where you can eat and walk around, or like basketball.<\/p>\n

"It is completely different. It's very quiet in a way. So yeah, that was really uncomfortable."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russian tennis player Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova has slammed the Australian Open's new \ufeffCourtside Bar, after she had patrons reportedly "meow" at her during the second round […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":360668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360671,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360666\/revisions\/360671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/360668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}