‘We were planning 4 different Australian Opens’ By Jerome Doraisamy|04 May 2021 Tennis Australia senior legal counsel Daniel Stuk details the extraordinary planning that went into ensuring the 2021 Australian Open was successful. On Friday, 12 February 2021, when the third-round matches of this year’s Australian Open were being played, the Victorian government announced a snap lockdown. It meant, Daniel Stuk recalled on The Corporate Counsel Show, that organisers of the international tennis tournament had just 12 hours to move the event from one with crowds to one that was broadcast-only. “On that Friday, we had people on-site and we had more people coming on-site for the evening matches, and we were thinking, ‘What do we do if the matches go on longer than midnight? Do we send people home? Do we even allow people to come for the evening session?’” he said.