The ATP Cup is working hard to complete its second edition and the two men's individual tournaments and the three on the women's circuit resume.

Tennis is trying to regain normalcy after the positive for Covid-19 of an employee of the Grand Hyatt hotel in Melbourne caused a real seizure and forced to quarantine 600 people, including many tennis players.

The paradisiacal images of a few days ago in the exhibition disputed by

Rafael Nadal

in Adelaide, with 4,000 people in the stands, were revalued after the suspension on Thursday of all the meetings in Australia.

The tennis season dawns, if possible, with greater uncertainty than has already been experienced since the outbreak of the pandemic almost more than a year ago.

Only Wimbledon fell from the calendar among the four major tournaments, although both the US Open and Roland Garros changed their dates and were played without an audience in the stands.

The idea of ​​the Australian Open, which was postponed for three weeks and should begin on the next Spanish morning on Monday, is that between 25,000 and 30,000 people can witness the matches live every day.

The draw for the individual draw, scheduled for yesterday, will be held today.

The extraordinary shock of the infected worker also resulted in the WTA (Women's Tennis Association) deciding that the tournaments played that week in Melbourne be defined in a

supertiebreak

(10-point tiebreaker) instead of a third set.

Two places to be defined

The ATP Cup was one of the few competitions that could be completed without any alteration in 2020, weeks before the pandemic that still shocks the entire planet.

The fact that, unlike last year, Melbourne is played as the only venue has not been able to avoid the mishap that came to cast doubt on its completion.

With Russia and Italy already in the semifinals as leaders of their respective groups, last morning Spain is measured this morning with Greece and Serbia with Germany to define the other two pending places.

Without Nadal, whose back problems already prevented him from playing the first crossing, against Australia, the team captained by

Pepe Vendrell

,

Roberto Bautista's

coach

, only needs one victory to meet Italy in the penultimate round.

A year ago, Spain played the title against Serbia and the ATP Cup gave birth to an early Nadal-

Djokovic

.

The Serbian won, who would complete his formidable start to the course by winning his eighth Australian Open.

A year ago, everything was more predictable.

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