The coronavirus is still very present in our lives and, of course, in that of athletes. The announcement of the organization of the Australian Open about the new date of the tournament and above all the rigid measures of quarantines, travel, tests … it was clear that I was going to bring complaints.
The first has been Benoit Paire. The 31-year-old tennis player, who has had various problems in 2020 with the sanitary bubbles installed in some tournaments for having given false positives, has written on 'Twitter' a message accompanied by a photo: “When they explain that to play the Australian Open you have to stay 14 days locked in a hotel room. #Interesting.”
The French's protests may not be the only ones since It must be remembered that all the measures proposed for the Melbourne bubble must have the approval of the ATP Players Council, which includes Nadal or Federer, but not Djokovic, Carreño or Schwartzman.