The first day of the inaugural Six Kings Slam in Saudi Arabia has been met with instant criticism from appalled tennis fans.
A somewhat lopsided first day saw Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner cruise through with relative ease.
The thinly attended Six Kings Slam has not lived up to expectations on any front, except its large pay check.
Sinner bossed Medvedev for the third time in the last two months, taking the opener 6-0, before the Russian managed to win three games in the second.
Still, Medvedev leaves with $1.5 million – not bad for 68 minutes work.
Alcaraz took two minutes longer to deal with Holger Rune, who also receives a hefty sum for earning just six games.
Despite the eye-watering cash prizes on offer, two entertaining clashes are ahead as Sinner takes on Novak Djokovic, before Alcaraz takes on his idol Rafael Nadal.
However, fans have spotted a ‘terrible’ feature of the tournament that comes as a real surprise given the money that’s been casually chucked at the event.
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Tennis fans blast ‘terrible’ camera angle at Six Kings Slam
You’d assume that with the amount of money seemingly just handed out to the players for more or less nothing, the Six Kings Slam would be a slick and polished tournament.
Absolutely not – fans made their thoughts known during the first match between Sinner and Medvedev when the default camera angle was incredibly far away.
A disgruntled fan wrote: “After all the hype, this is the garbage they gave the TV audience. This event will flop with that atrocious camera angle.”
A second added: “Spent all the money on the players, can’t afford a decent angle.”
Tennis journalist Ben Rothenberg noted how poor the camera angle was, joking that setting up an angle for one of the many empty seats would work better.
A fan admitted they stopped watching, saying: “I turned it off after a few minutes of not being able to see the ball…,” with another adding: “I started watching it and quit for that very reason.”
An embarrassing first day for the Six Kings Slam
When organizing a tournament with such high pay for players, the least the tournament directors can do is ensure everything else is to the highest quality.
Unfortunately, you get batter camera angles at ATP challenger events, where the total prize money is far less than Medvedev managed to earn in just one minute.
Empty seats, no major television deals, an incredibly high-budget promotion campaign are presumably making this event one of the biggest money-losing exhibitions ever.
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