With strict quarantine guidelines forward of the corona-affected Australian Open 2021, set to start on February 8, tennis stars have come ahead to specific their anger over the standard of meals being supplied at their designated lodge.
Initially the plan was for opponents to be allowed out for 5 hours a day to coach however that shortly modified after 4 passengers from two planes additionally carrying the gamers examined optimistic.
Multiple tennis stars complained of dangerous high quality of meals being supplied. World No. 15 Carreno Busta from Spain shared an image of salad, an apple and juice cup alongside the caption ‘really?’.
Meanwhile world No.28 Benoit Paire from France opted towards the quarantine meals fully, and had McDonald’s delivered to his room.
Australian Open match director Craig Tiley has confirmed the yr’s first Grand Slam will go forward from Feb. 8 regardless of anger from gamers compelled into arduous quarantine in Melbourne resulting from optimistic COVID-19 circumstances on their constitution planes.
Forty-seven gamers and their entourages need to isolate for 2 weeks of their lodge rooms in Melbourne and are now not capable of depart them to coach after infections had been reported on two chartered flights carrying them to Melbourne.
Tiley mentioned the match would begin as scheduled however governing physique Tennis Australia would have a look at altering the leadup tournaments to assist the affected gamers.
“We are reviewing the schedule leading in to see what we can do to assist these players,” Tiley instructed the Nine Network on Sunday.
“The Australian Open is going ahead and we will continue to do the best we possibly can do to ensure those players have the best opportunity.”
Quarantine authorities mentioned they’d recorded a fourth COVID-19 an infection among the many passengers on the 2 constitution flights carrying gamers to Melbourne.
A broadcaster on the flight from Los Angeles had examined optimistic, including to an aircrew member and a tennis coach on the identical airplane who had been reported on Saturday. The different case was Sylvain Bruneau, the coach of the ladies’s 2019 U.S. Open champion – Canada’s Bianca Andreescu.
Bruneau was a passenger on a constitution flight carrying 23 gamers from Abu Dhabi.Some of the affected gamers complained about their detention, saying they’d not been adequately suggested.
With assist from Reuters
