Coronavirus - tennis related wef 4th May

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Coronavirus - tennis related wef 4th May

brittak · Satellite level

Interesting BBC article about alleged ATP/FTT flouting of COVID regulations

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/55875529

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Atp have announced single year events in Singapore , straight after the AO, and Marbella (after Miami) at the atp 250 level.

Are you near Marbella , Bob?

Only just seen this Jon.

To answer your question, No. I am on the Costa Blanca, just south of Alicante.

the addict · Tennis legend

Oh dear, more trouble in Melbourne

https://twitter.com/_StephAnderson/status/1356930125414100993

"The quarantine worker was working at an Australian Open hotel. Players and staff staying at the Grand Hyatt during the entire quarantine period have to immediately isolate and get tested"

indiana · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Atp have announced single year events in Singapore , straight after the AO, and Marbella (after Miami) at the atp 250 level.

Are you near Marbella , Bob?
Only just seen this Jon.
To answer your question, No. I am on the Costa Blanca, just south of Alicante.

So, in normal times just up the road

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
Oh dear, more trouble in Melbourne
https://twitter.com/_StephAnderson/status/1356930125414100993
"The quarantine worker was working at an Australian Open hotel. Players and staff staying at the Grand Hyatt during the entire quarantine period have to immediately isolate and get tested"

this looks serious - BBC breaking news

Between 500 and 600 Australian Open players, officials and support staff will go into isolation after a worker at one of the event's quarantine hotels tested positive for coronavirus.

Thursday's play at the six warm-up events at Melbourne Park is set to be affected by the move, says Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews.

But Andrews said: "At this stage there is no impact on the tournament proper."

Players will be free to return to competing after a negative test.

The Australian Open, which was pushed back by three weeks to enable players to quarantine, starts on Monday.

A 26-year-old man has tested positive for Covid-19 - believed to be the UK strain of the virus - after working at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Melbourne's Central Business District, Andrews said.

This was one of the hotels where some of the 1,000 players, officials and support staff stayed to complete a 14-day quarantine period on their arrival in Australia.

Andrews said the 500-600 people there for the Australian Open were deemed to be "casual contacts" of the man.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Seemingly they all need to take a test before being cleared to play tomorrow. 62 matches on tomorrows schedule incl ATP Cup (50 below plus 12)
Mike Dickson
@Mike_Dickson_DM
There are 50 matches on the schedule in Melbourne tomorrow and 5-600 tennis personnel now facing a test after a local man tested positive in player hotel. Difficult.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Bob in Spain wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Atp have announced single year events in Singapore , straight after the AO, and Marbella (after Miami) at the atp 250 level.

Are you near Marbella , Bob?
Only just seen this Jon.
To answer your question, No. I am on the Costa Blanca, just south of Alicante.
So, in normal times just up the road

Yep. Just a nip around the block for me. About 5 hours each way.

seagull · Hall of fame

Looks like all play in Melbourne tomorrow has been cancelled :)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

And likelihood is they cant finish these events - eg ATP Cup in time. Unless they start playing twice a day Friday-Sunday...

They cant delay AO, it impacts elsewhere, so they will need to cut short or cancel this weeks events.

indiana · Tennis legend

I was one who said that I didn't think the Aus Open shohld have gone ahead but I have been impressed with the no nonsense efforts to protect everyone and keep the event on course.

Hope there is no further fall out from this one case.

Mark1968 · Intermediate Club Player

The Melbourne Park goings on are utter madness. To imprison 600 people because ONE might (the test is nowhere near 100% accurate) have cv19 is stuff dreamed up by the insane. Covid19 is going to be with us forever like other strands of coronavirus such as the common cold. Life really cannot go on like this any longer, it staggers me that it can be legal to imprison people in their hotel rooms for 14 days and now this on top. If you think any of this makes sense I hope you enjoy the misery that this is bringing to billions of people. The recovery rate from covid is over 99%.

flamingowings · All-time great

José Morgado
@josemorgado
Tiley admits that Tennis Australia is working with the ATP & WTA to find a way to finish the pre-#AusOpen events. It's possible that they can change the scoring format (4-games sets? match tiebreak 3rd set in singles?)

Gonna be interesting to see the schedule for tomorrow.
4:53 pm · 4 Feb 2021·Twitter Web App

flamingowings · All-time great

Mark1968 wrote:
The Melbourne Park goings on are utter madness. To imprison 600 people because ONE might (the test is nowhere near 100% accurate) have cv19 is stuff dreamed up by the insane. Covid19 is going to be with us forever like other strands of coronavirus such as the common cold. Life really cannot go on like this any longer, it staggers me that it can be legal to imprison people in their hotel rooms for 14 days and now this on top. If you think any of this makes sense I hope you enjoy the misery that this is bringing to billions of people. The recovery rate from covid is over 99%.

Australia have persued an elimination strategy. It is working better than the UK's one.

indiana · Tennis legend

They were and are certainly after elimination in the Australian Open overall bubble of players, player's families and teams and officials and support staff including everyone who could contact them in these designated hotels - which was possible, and a question for now is how did the hotel worker contract covid? Understandably, having made the huge decision to progress with the AO, that remains their aim.

I'm no expert on the Australian covid policies overall but their covid numbers are extremely low.