The last group of quarantined players in Melbourne ahead of the Australian Open and a week of tune-up tournaments was set to leave their hotels at midnight Saturday night, ending a mammoth two-week effort to reduce the chance of any international arrivals bringing the coronavirus Down Under.
A busy stretch for Canadian tennis starts this weekend with Australian Open players emerging from quarantine.
It was a great plan with great foresight, to fly the world’s biggest tennis names and their teams into Adelaide rather than Melbourne. It stretched the permitted quarantine numbers for this almost completely Covid-free nation...
Two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Giannis Antetokounmpo has jokingly referred to Nick Kyrgios as the “Dennis Rodman of tennis”.