Mansour Bahrami, two Australians and a giggle: a 2020 legends clip takes off in Melbourne
Bahrami and Fabrice Santoro against Pat Cash and Mark Woodforde is on course for about ten times the tournament channel's usual first day, and a Mirra Andreeva winner woke up beside it.
Australian OpenStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 190,022 views a day, 10 times a normal first day on this channel (18,350).
Bahrami is DEFEATED! 🤣
Sixteen hours after the Australian Open posted "Bahrami is DEFEATED! 🤣", the clip had passed 160,000 views. That puts it on course for roughly ten times what a new upload on the tournament's channel usually draws in a full first day.
The cast explains the emoji. The clip comes from a legends doubles match at the 2020 tournament, and Mansour Bahrami has long been the resident entertainer of that kind of tennis. He is known for underarm serves, shots flicked from behind his back and a moustache that is almost part of the act. Beside him was Fabrice Santoro, the Frenchman whose game was built on angles and disguise. Across the net stood two Australians: Pat Cash, a former Wimbledon champion, and Mark Woodforde, who with Todd Woodbridge made up the Woodies, one of the great doubles teams of the 1990s.
According to the description, Bahrami has to defend himself against the pair. The title hints at how that goes.
The comment section is small and mostly laughter. One viewer used the moment to ask for Kei Nishikori's best Melbourne matches instead.
The next main draw is not until January, and the channel is filling the gap from its archive. A second clip took off on the same day. Posted three days earlier, Mirra Andreeva's cross-court winner past Maria Sakkari, a point from the second round in 2026 that ends with a cry of delight, was suddenly running at more than five times its usual daily pace. So the channel had two hits from opposite ends of the sport: a point that meant everything to the player who won it, and a match played mostly for laughs.
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- Channel
- Australian Open
- Subscribers
- 3,160,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 5,276,883 (on a normal day: 5,927,297)
- Video published
- October 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 159,422 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 190,022
The numbers
A legends match from six years ago is moving faster than almost anything new the tournament's channel posts.
💡 Test your knowledge
In which year did Pat Cash win the Wimbledon men's singles title?
Cash beat Ivan Lendl in the 1987 Wimbledon final and celebrated by climbing into the stands to his player's box.
