Australian Open 2020

[Thryleon]

I commented to my wife many times during the AO this year that the crowds seemed to yell stuff out just as players were preparing to or about to serve. I'm all for a vocal crowd getting into the game but there is a certain etiquette that goes with games like tennis and golf that must be adhered to. The umpires did SFA to nip this in the bud IMO.

That was true all tournament.

Particularly when you combine it with some arbitrary timer in their serving preparation.  30 seconds, started by the chair umpire, whilst the crowd are STILL making noise, and then they wonder why both Rafa nadal, and Novak Djokovic ended up with time violation warnings.

I spent the whole day at the Tennis on day 1.  Crowd making lots of noise, and walking around the stadium whenever they felt like it.  People are very rude and disrespectful.  Very few attempts to quieten the crowd, and only hurrying them up to take their seats right at the end of the process.  During this time I watched the courtside "timers".  They counted down to 0 frequently whilst the crowd were making noise.  Its been common for players hearing noise "restart" their service preparation.