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Melbourne (AP) - Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley has defended the privileges for the stars in the run-up to the first Grand Slam tournament of the tennis season.
"My general rule is that if you are at the top of the game, a grand slam champion, it's just the nature of the business that you get a better deal," Tiley said.
Tiley referred to the top professionals such as Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Naomi Osaka or Serena Williams, who, unlike the rest of the tennis entourage, are not allowed to spend their 14-day quarantine due to Corona in Adelaide.
The hotel rooms there have a balcony, unlike the three hotels in Melbourne.
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Tiley said Djokovic and Co. would otherwise not enjoy any further privileges.
In Adelaide, too, players are only allowed to leave their hotel rooms for around five hours for training and fitness units.
There are no fitness rooms there either.
However, the stars were allowed to bring more supervisors.
Some Melbourne-based professionals criticized the different treatment.
For the more than 70 professionals and supervisors who have to be completely quarantined for two weeks because passengers tested positive for Corona on their flights, nothing else has changed.
Angelique Kerber and Co. are still not allowed to train.
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