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Eleven fans were ejected from Melbourne Park for disruptive behavior Monday and another group was denied entry on the first day of the Australian Open.<\/p>\nEleven fans were ejected from Melbourne Park for disruptive behavior Monday and another group was denied entry on the first day of the Australian Open.<\/p>\n
The incidents recalled ethnic tensions that have marred the tennis tournament in recent years, leading to upgraded security this year.<\/p>\n
Victoria Police Superintendent Jock Menzel said the 11 people ejected had been standing on chairs and bothering other spectators during Croatian Ivo Karlovic’s win over 13th-seeded Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic. <\/span><\/p>\n One man was found to be carrying two flares that he had smuggled past security officials searching bags at the venue.<\/p>\n “These people have been removed from the stadium and they’re not welcome to return,” Menzel said.<\/p>\n In a separate incident, a group of Croatian supporters in red and white checked clothing and hooded sweat shirts were denied entry to the Australia has a large population of immigrants from the Balkans whose ethnic rivalries are sometimes displayed at sports events.<\/p>\n At last year’s Australian Open, a chair-throwing brawl erupted between supporters of Serbia’s Novak Djokovic and Bosnian-born American On the court, former top-ranked Maria Sharapova was a surprise 7-6 (4), 3-6, 6-4 loser Monday to fellow Russian Maria Kirilenko.<\/p>\n Read the original article from Tribune News Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n Eleven fans were ejected from Melbourne Park for disruptive behavior Monday and another group was denied entry on the first day of the Australian Open. The incidents recalled ethnic tensions that have marred the tennis tournament in recent years, leading to upgraded security this year. Victoria Police Superintendent Jock Menzel said the 11 people ejected […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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