Australian Open FanZone in city
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The Australian Open FanZone visited Shanghai over the weekend, featuring a trophy exhibition and mini-tennis games for young fans.
At the zone set up at Pudong鈥檚 Kerry Parkside mall, participants could get a close-up look at the Australian Open trophies 鈥 the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup for men and the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup for women. Australian Open mixed doubles champion Sun Tiantian also showed up at the event and interacted with young local tennis players.
The Australian Open also unveiled the FAST4, a fun new game format, with new rules which make it exciting and fast.
FAST4 is currently applied in exhibition games and amateur matches. The new rules include 鈥減lay lets鈥 鈥 if the serve clips the tape and lands in the service box, there is no let, but game on; 鈥渘o ad scoring鈥 鈥 as soon as a game gets to deuce, it is a power point. The receiver chooses which side to take the serve; 鈥渢iebreaker at 3 games all鈥 and 鈥渇irst to 4 games wins.鈥
FAST4 made its debut earlier this year when Roger Federer took on Lleyton Hewitt in an exhibition in Sydney. It has also been launched in Britain and the US.
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