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Kaia Kanepi (left) and Anett Kontaveit at the Merko Cup tournament held last August. Source: Anna Aurelia Minev/ERR
Thurday's matches in warm-up tournaments for the Australian Open, where Estonian tennis players Kaia Kanepi and Anett Kontaveit are participating, were delayed due to a positive coronavirus case.
On Wednesday, a staff member of the hotel accommodating tennis players and coaches tested positive for COVID-19, leading all matches on Thursday to be delayed. In addition, nearly 600 people must remain in self-isolation as they were deemed close contacts.
Tennis Australia, the federation in charge of tournament management, announced that all matches will be delayed, including Kaia Kanepi's Gippsland Trophy match-up with Karolina Muchova and Anett Kontaveit's Grampians Trophy meeting with Bethanie Mattek-Sands.