Australian Open gets green light for 30,000 a day as WA loosens border restrictions

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Crowds at this year's Australian Open will be capped at half the pre-Covid average, after Victoria's top health official signed off on allowing up to 30,000 spectators to attend the start of the tournament next month.

On Saturday, Victoria's sports minister, Martin Pakula, confirmed the government had agreed to a plan that would allow daily crowd capacity of 30,000 for the first eight days of the tournament, reducing to 25,000 per day from the start of the tournament quarter-finals.