Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs Open Season has learnt that organisers were worried that the poor fantasy football form of de Minaur and British player Cameron Norrie had put them in the risky position of having to run an actual marathon, so they added the calendar shoot option, just in case, as well as a third costly option of buying all the league members an NFL jersey of their choice.The calendar shoot option seems to have been inspired by the startling photoshoot of Stan Wawrinka in ESPN The Magazine in 2015 after he beat Novak Djokovic to win the French Open. Wawrinka was pictured at full stretch on a court with only his racquet keeping him company.Reid was a recent winner of the competition.And Australian player Luke Saville, before the calendar option was added, was a loser. And yes, he kept the bargain and ran a marathon.A night of clangersMelbourne Lord Mayor Nick Reece was having quite the night on Sunday evening. Tennis Australia’s key hospitality suite, The O, high up in Rod Laver arena, was thick with Melebrities and he was seated with Hollywood royalty Rebel Wilson no less as the special guest of Tennis Australia chair Jayne Hrdlicka for the Set in Style event.The great and the good were in attendance, including evergreen songstress Dannii Minogue, super-suave soccer player Aaron Evans, comedian Joel Creasey and his finance, Jack Stratton-Smith, as well as Olympic runner and new father Peter Bol.Hrdlicka spoke well off the cuff, praising tennis legends Judy Dalton and Wendy Turnbull, who were attending the dinner.“We’re really excited to see all of you here in this room,” she said. “We have extraordinary people. This room celebrates excellence.”She then introduced Melbourne’s 105th lord mayor as “Nick Evans”.Clang. But the big guy bounded up to the front of the dinner crowd with big LM energy and said with feeling: “Thanks very much Jayne. Nick Reece, newly minted Lord Mayor of Melbourne.”LoadingRegular readers might recall a previous Nick/Nicholas naming controversy when he phoned media outlets to let it be known that it was out with Nicholas and in with Nick.But then he dropped a few clangers of his own, praising “Jane Dalton” and Turnbull as “two absolute pioneers of women’s tennis, indeed, part of the original Virginia Slims Nine back in 1971, where women’s tennis went professional”.Actually, it was Dalton and Kerry Melville Reid who were feted as members of the group of women’s tennis pioneers known as the Original Nine. Along with Billie Jean King and others, they were guests of honour at the Open back in 2021 in a memorable reunion.Getting that luxe tennis lookIt’s no secret that the Australian Open has been dialling up the glamour in recent years, and this is no more obvious than in major AO sponsor Ralph Lauren’s luxury suite.Celebrity stylist Lana Wilkinson, a tournament attendee since she was a kid in the ’80s, breezed in wearing a red varsity jacket with white pumps to tell Open Season she is loving today’s “tennis-core” sports-luxe style.“Everyone used to be really casual and dress like they were playing, whereas now there’s a real fashion element.”This is fashion designer Pip Edwards′ fifth year flying from Sydney for the Open, and she has watched the event become increasingly chic.Edwards, who co-founded P.E Nation and is now Ksubi’s creative director, describes her look as “tomboy”.Designer Pip Edwards surveys the Ralph Lauren marqueeCredit: Chris HopkinsShe dressed the part, with her men’s waistcoat styled over baggy women’s pants accompanied by cap and bandana. Tennis didn’t need the same high-fashion stakes of the spring racing carnival, she said.“It’s more inclusive. Whether you’re four years old or 80 years old, you can be into tennis. It allows the fashion to be more approachable.”She noted that Melbourne was spoilt for stylish sporting events.“You get all the sport. Sydney doesn’t get any,” Edwards says. “It says you must be the actual fashion capital.”She said it, not us.
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