Australian Open 2022 Week 2

 

Australian Open, Melbourne Park
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
January 13 - 30, 2022

Aboriginal Dot Art

Before Indigenous Australian art was ever put onto canvas the Aboriginal people would smooth over the soil to draw sacred designs which belonged to that particular ceremony. Body paint was also applied which held meanings connected to sacred rituals. These designs were outlined with circles and encircled with dots.

Uninitiated people never got to see these sacred designs since the soil would be smoothed over again and painted bodies would be washed. This was not possible with paintings. Aboriginal artists abstracted their paintings to disguise the sacred designs so the real meanings could not be understood by Westerners.

Australian Open 2022

Australian Open, Melbourne Park
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
January 17 - 30, 2022

Melbourne - tucked way into corner of this vast beautiful country

SYDNEY & ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - Last Week before the Australian Open

Sydney Classic - WTA 500

Sydney Classic - ATP 250

Adelaide International 2 - ATP 250

Adelaide International 2 - WTA 250

Welcome to the week before the Australian Open!!  We're leaving a packed week full of anxious AO contenders. 

A hearty Congratulations to The ATP Cup champs Canada (and Shirley our resident Canuck)!  The non-controversial tennis gang was in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide.  And we're only leaving Melbourne for a hot second before we're back next week for the AO.

And Congratulations to the regulation tournament Winners this week: Adelaide 500: Ash Barty (+ Doubles Champ with Storm Sanders); Melbourne 1 WTA 250 Simona Halep 😎;  Melbourne 2 WTA 250: Amanda Anisimova; Adelaide ATP 250: Gael Monfils; Melbourne Summer Set ATP 250: Rafa Nadal!

Now buckle your seat belts, it may be a bumpy ride in Sydney and Adelaide for the diehards determined to be match ready for the AO Jan. 17. 

So, let's get to it!👇