The previous phase of the Australian Open could be canceled

The Australian Open 2021 is immersed in a sea of ​​uncertainty. The only thing we know for sure today, as announced last Sunday Craig tiley (Executive Director of Tennis Australia), is that the tournament dates will be announced over the next two weeks. Everything else is up in the air.

Including the preliminary phase of the tournament, which according to information from Sydney morning herald Y The Age, this could be canceled due to possible delays in the starting date of the Grand Slam, scheduled for January 18. The activity on the track would be much more compressed although it would reduce the media impact of the post-Melbourne tournaments, so that could be one of the solutions despite the economic damage that can be caused to low-ranking players.

The intention is to avoid it at all costs, but the quarantine protocols that players will have to go through do not help either. Tennis Australia and the government are still negotiating these rules, which will presumably consist of a 14-day isolation period prior to the start of the tournament, which would mean that players should arrive in Australia around the end of December. Many questions less than two months after the action starts in oceanic lands, with the biggest of all to be resolved: will there be the Australian Open?