Two weeks of quarantine after 47 of the 47 Australian Open tennis players were on board next month because some of them tested positive for the new coronavirus. Some athletes have complained that they are not allowed to practice outside the room.
The Australian Open, one of the four major tennis tournaments, is scheduled to be postponed from this month to the 8th of next month due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, and players and related parties will enter the site one after another by charter aircraft. doing.
According to the organizers of the tournament, three passengers and crew members of two charter flights arriving from the United States and UAE = United Arab Emirates tested positive for the new coronavirus on the 15th.
In response, the tournament organizer has announced that 47 athletes, including Kei Nishikori, who was on two flights, will be required to be quarantined at the hotel for two weeks after entering the country and will not be allowed to practice outside. did.
On the other hand, athletes who arrived at the site on another flight are allowed to practice outside for up to 5 hours a day even during the quarantine period.
This caused some players to complain, and Swiss Belinda Bencic wrote on Twitter that "the practice environment before important competitions will be unfair."
The tournament organizers say that the tournament schedule has not changed, but the issue is how to balance infection control and competition fairness.