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Australian Open: Wii Tennis avatars being used for YouTube streams
The ongoing 2025 Australian Open has taken a unique approach to its live broadcasts on the official YouTube channel. Rather than traditional footage from Melbourne Park, viewers are treated to animated versions of tennis stars like Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz and Coco Gauff.
Why the Australian Open is animating its players on YouTube
Tennis Australia has transformed the world's best players into animated versions of themselves to bypass broadcast restrictions at the Australian Open.
Why the Australian Open is streaming live tennis with gaming-style player avatars
The Australian Open is re-creating tennis matches with players looking like something out of a Wii game. Here's why these graphics are being used.
Why Australian Open live streams look like Wii tennis — and what it means for sports
The Australian Open's animated tennis livestreams are making a splash. U.S. leagues have used similar technology to put Simpsons on the football field and superheroes on ice skates.
Australian Open: Animated YouTube broadcast takes fans by storm
Tennis fans are hailing this year’s Australian Open broadcast, just not on the television. The season-opening tournament introduced its new Sunday start for the first time in 2025, and fans inside Melbourne Park have already been treated to a series of blockbusters across the first round.
Is Novak Djokovic Playing Today at the 2025 Australian Open?
Record-holder of ten Australian Open titles, Novak Djokovic aims for another triumph in the Land Down Under as the year's first Grand Slam gets underway.
Australian Open is animating matches with Wii-like characters
Maybe attending sports events in person is too been-there, done-that in the modern age. So, apparently, is watching the actual action on a TV, laptop or phone. The Australian Open is getting in on the newest trend in the sports world by re-creating tennis matches in video-game form.
The Americans still playing at the 2025 Australian Open
American stars Coco Gauff and Madison Keys are still in the draw at the Australian Open -- but who else is? We break it down.
Danielle Collins thanked her haters for paying the bills after Australian Open crowd boos
Danielle Collins thanked her haters for paying her bills at the Australian Open, and this is the kind of energy more people ...
Australian Open goes Wii Sports mode for YouTube broadcast
Even in this world, the whole concept is a blast—fingers (and fully rendered clothes, unfortunately) be damned. You can see it for yourself on the Australian Open’s YouTube channel, with matches ...
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Australian Open resorts to animated caricatures to get around broadcast restrictions
The Australian Open has implemented a cheeky workaround for international viewers that dodges its own broadcast obligations.
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The Australian Open is showing Wii Tennis versions of live matches – and players are delighted
If you’ve stumbled across an Australian Open live-stream on their official YouTube channel this week, you may have been surprised by exactly what you were looking at. Tennis Australia has ...
Why is the Australian Open using cartoon players?
The tennis balls are unusually large, players' heads are out of proportion and the racquets they are holding sometimes seem ...
Australian Open’s experiment with animation an instant hit
The official YouTube channel of the Australian Open has players going about their business in cartooned versions ...
“LMAO, it makes it 100 times funnier”: Australian Open’s unique YouTube streaming stuns fans with animated avatars
The Australian Open has introduced animated avatars to stream matches on YouTube, due to broadcast licensing restrictions.