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Some Australian Open players are finding quarantine tough but there are both risks and benefits
Self-entitled prima donnas or do the players have a valid point about the hard lockdown ahead of the first Grand Slam of 2021. Jan 28, 2021 · 06:45 pm Support Staff (L) and Novak Djokovic (R) playing tennis on a balcony where they are quarantined | MORGAN SETTE / AFP
The challenge of bringing the world’s best tennis players and support staff, about 1,200 people in all, from Covid-ravaged parts of the world to our almost pandemic-free shores was always going to be a big ask.
Soon after this star-studded Australian Open entourage arrived in Melbourne, ten cases of Covid-19 were identified (some later reclassified as being old infections). As a result, 72 players classified as close contacts were confined to hotel rooms with no access to what they thought they had been promised a daily five-hour session on the practice courts within the quarantine bubble.