Some tennis fans in Melbourne wonder why should soccer hooligans have all the fun.

TENNIS WEEK reports that police had to use pepper spray on unruly fans during a first round match at the Australian Open. The confrontation caused a five-minute delay in the match between Chile’s Fernando Gonzalez and Grecce’s Konstantinos Economidis.

A group of fans started chanting insults at other spectators. When police came to remove the offending chant-leader, the crowd “became aggressive and threatening,” prompting the pepper spray use.

Authorities have instituted a zero-tolerance policy on bad behavior at this year’s open, due to a large-scale fight last year between Serbian & Croatian fans. But it’s hard to keep passions contained when it comes between such old rivals as the Chileans & Greeks.