According to the Australian newspaper Herald Sun, all the tournaments of the month of January in the oceanic country will be concentrated in the state of Victoria, in the bubble that the national federation will mount in Melbourne and surroundings. These are the ATP Cup, which was scheduled to take place from January 1 to 10 in Brisbane, Perth and Sydney, the Adelaide International (11 to 17) and the Australian Open (18 to 31). WTA Premier Brisbane and Hobart International would also move to this single core.
To be in these events, tennis players from both the ATP and the WTA will have to do a prior 14-day quarantineIn other words, they will arrive in Melbourne in mid-December, the city that will become the world epicenter of the racket sport at the beginning of the 2021 course.
In principle, in parallel, the Doha tournament would be played, in Qatar (January 4 to 11) and it is not yet clear if the Auckland one, in New Zealand will take place, from 11 to 17. THE WTA outlines its calendar these days, which will probably start on January 2. In any case, there are still many questions and doubts in the air, and everything will depend on the evolution of the pandemic.