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  Australian Open players to isolate after COVID-19 positive case at hotel

  Tennis | February 03, 2021 19:25 IST

  Daniel Andrews, the political leader of Victoria state, called a late-night news conference Wednesday to announce the case and urged anyone with symptoms in Melbourne to get tested.

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  Serena Williams keeps rolling in tuneup for Australian Open 2021

  Tennis | February 03, 2021 16:59 IST

  Now that she's at Melbourne Park, though, she's making the most of her time in the Yarra Valley Classic to prepare for next week's Australian Open.

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  Electronic line calling set for all Australian Open courts

  Tennis | February 03, 2021 13:53 IST

  In a Grand Slam first, there will be no on-court line judges on any of the tournament courts in an effort to reduce the number of staff on-site during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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  Sumit Nagal's gut feeling says he will play top-10 player at Australian Open

  Tennis | February 02, 2021 17:16 IST

  Nagal has been awarded a wild card entry into the hard court major and he will come to know about his opponent when the draw is announced on Thursday.

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  Coco Gauff through in 3 tough sets in Australian Open tuneup

  Tennis | February 01, 2021 13:22 IST

  The American teenager defeated Jil Teichmann 6-3, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (5) at the WTA’s Gippsland Trophy.

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  Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova advances to second round in Australian Open's tuneup event

  Tennis | February 01, 2021 11:08 IST

  The 11th-seeded Pavlyuchenkova has been a quarterfinalist in three of the last four years at the Australian Open.

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  Australian Open: Big week as tune-up tournaments to Grand Slam set to start

  Tennis | January 30, 2021 9:16 IST

  More than 1,000 players and officials went into a two-week quarantine from Jan. 14 when the first of 17 flights chartered by Tennis Australia landed in Melbourne and Adelaide.

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  Serena Williams visits zoo with daughter before win; Novak Djokovic on court in Australia

  Tennis | January 29, 2021 13:12 IST

  Williams said she'd been crossing off the 14 days of quarantine on a calendar, having spent the time with her three-year-old daughter Olympia.

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  Andy Murray enters challenger event in Italy after withdrawing from Australian Open

  Tennis | January 27, 2021 20:39 IST

  Murray is listed to play an indoor tournament in Biella starting Feb. 15, the Italian Tennis Federation said Wednesday.

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  Rafael Nadal supports Australian Open Covid-19 measures

  Tennis | January 27, 2021 11:27 IST

  All players arriving in Australia were required to undergo two weeks' quarantine along with their support staff. 

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  Andy Murray pulls out of Australian Open, says he's 'gutted'

  Tennis | January 22, 2021 22:37 IST

  The announcement comes a little more than a week after Murray said he tested positive for COVID-19 shortly before he was due to board a charter flight to Melbourne.

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  Australian Open: Spain tennis player tests positive for COVID-19

  Tennis | January 22, 2021 11:01 IST

  Paula Badosa, a 23-year-old who reached the fourth round at last year's French Open, wrote Thursday on Twitter that she received her test result for COVID-19.

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  Three more COVID-19 cases linked to Australian Open arrivals

  Tennis | January 19, 2021 9:20 IST

  More than 1,200 players, coaches, staff, officials and media have arrived on 17 charter flights since last Thursday to prepare for the Australian Open, which starts Feb. 8.

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  Australian Open: Tennis players getting on with life in Melbourne

  Tennis | January 18, 2021 17:27 IST

  2016 champion Angelique Kerber, who is among the 72 players doing hard quarantine for 14 days, spent her birthday in quarantine on Monday. 

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  Players complain of food quality in Australian Open quarantine

  Tennis | January 17, 2021 23:07 IST

  As many as 47 players were earlier sent into hard quarantine after four coronavirus cases were detected on two charter flights that was transporting them to the country along with coaches and officials.

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  Australian Open: 72 players now in quarantine after positive coronavirus test in third flight

  Tennis | January 17, 2021 19:41 IST

  The positive test came from a passenger who was not a member of the playing contingent, Australian Open organizers said.

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  You're wrong: Brit player tells doctors after battling rare disease, qualifying for Australian Open

  Tennis | January 17, 2021 17:09 IST

  When Francesca Jones was young, she was told by doctors that she could not play tennis.

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  Australian Open: Grand Slam champions among 47 players in lockdown after 4 positive COVID-19 cases

  Tennis | January 17, 2021 16:04 IST

  Some players were angry at being classified as close contacts merely for being on board those flights with people who later tested positive and, therefore, forced into a harsher quarantine than the broader group of players

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  Australian Open: 3 COVID-19 positive cases detected; 47 players forced into strict quarantine

  Tennis | January 17, 2021 6:19 IST

  Health authorities said two positive COVID-19 cases emerged from a charter flight from Los Angeles. The third positive test was from a flight from Abu Dhabi in the past 24 hours.

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  Australian Open arrivals hit by 2 COVID-19 positive tests

  Tennis | January 16, 2021 16:02 IST

  But the positive tests will force all passengers from that flight into a strictly-enforced 14-day hotel quarantine without the ability to leave their hotel rooms — and for the players not to be able to practice.