{"id":2225230,"date":"2026-01-07T04:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2225230"},"modified":"2026-01-07T04:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:16:11","slug":"your-definitive-guide-to-ao-opening-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/your-definitive-guide-to-ao-opening-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Your definitive guide to AO Opening Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Can\u2019t make it to any of those acts? Never fear \u2013 AO LIVE Opening Week is part of a wider program across the entirety of the AO, a 21-day summer music festival of chilled-out acoustic sessions, mesmerising DJ sets, homegrown indie rock bands and so much more.<\/span><\/p>\n

MORE: Rene\u00e9 Rapp to make highly-anticipated Australian debut<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Kids and families<\/span><\/h5>\n

Kids Tennis Day presented by Emirates<\/span><\/a> on Saturday 17 January continues to be one of the AO\u2019s most-loved traditions. It\u2019s a complete takeover of the AO precinct, with special events and activities as well as the Arena Spectacular, which will be held in John Cain Arena.<\/span><\/p>\n

And there\u2019s also the AO Ballpark presented by Emirates, which provides kids with a world of excitement and more ways to play than ever before \u2013 including an airport-themed obstacle course, thrilling waterslides, speed-serve competitions and live entertainment. Secure a seat under the shade and watch as cartoon characters come to life with live performances from animated icons like Peppa Pig, Care Bears and Paw Patrol.<\/span><\/p>\n

When downtime calls, young fans can take a break with Storytime at Ballpark, a daily 25-minute read-along session. And when adventure calls, the whole family can set off on an epic scavenger hunt across the entire precinct, collecting stamps to go into the draw to win free tickets to the women\u2019s semifinals.<\/span><\/p>\n

For foodies<\/span><\/h5>\n

During AO Opening Week, you can travel the world without leaving the precinct.<\/span><\/p>\n

Soak in the buzzing atmosphere as you sip on an exclusive AO Shake and savour a signature ShackBurger<\/span>\u00ae from the first-ever Australian pop-up of New York City\u2019s Shake Shack.<\/span><\/p>\n

Head to the Grand Slam Oval for a quick trip to Greece; order a souvlaki or spanakopita from Stalactites x Taverna. Southeast Asia is calling with Season Chicken\u2019s exciting new Vietnamese fried chicken offering, while Japan is within reach at Suupaa, a Japanese-inspired convenience store serving quick and easy bites.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ausopen.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can\u2019t make it to any of those acts? Never fear \u2013 AO LIVE Opening Week is part of a wider program across the entirety of the AO, a 21-day summer music festival of chilled-out acoustic sessions, mesmerising DJ sets, homegrown indie rock bands and so much more. MORE: Rene\u00e9 Rapp to make highly-anticipated Australian debut […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2225231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2225230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Your-definitive-guide-to-AO-Opening-Week.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2225232,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225230\/revisions\/2225232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2225231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}