Australian Open to go ahead despite players’ quarantine anger
17 January 2021 - 17:34
Melbourne — Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley has confirmed 2021’s first Grand Slam will go ahead from February 8 despite anger from players forced into hard quarantine in Melbourne due to positive Covid-19 cases on their charter planes.
Forty-seven players and their entourages have to isolate for two weeks in Melbourne in their hotel rooms and will no longer be able to leave them to train after three coronavirus infections were reported on two chartered flights carrying them to Melbourne...
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