MURCIA. Carlos Alcaraz Garfia, the young tennis player 17-year-old from Murcia that next February he will debut in the final draw of a tournament of the Grand Slam, specifically the Australian Open, already found en Melbourne, where you will perform a preventive quarantine, according to the protocol that is established to participate in this top-level competition.
The player has posted on his official Twitter account a photograph on the bus that took him to the airport terminal of the Australian city to go from there to the hotel where “rest and begin the quarantine”, just as you have written.
Alcaraz achieved his classification for the first major of the year in the previous phase played in Doha, the capital of Qatar, where he successively beat the Slovak Filip Horansky, to russian Evgeny Karlovskiy and to the bolivian Hugo Dellien Velasco.
The one from El Palmar, which occupies the number 141 of the ATP classification, although it is expected that he will rise several positions with his victories in Qatar, he has arrived in Australia in advance as the tournament will begin on February 8, but for quite some time before that date, the aforementioned protocol must be complied with, which requires that all The participating tennis players should submit a negative test before boarding their flight to Australia – each plane that displaces the players could not exceed 25% of its capacity – and upon arrival in the oceanic country, all have been evaluated and isolated until they are receive the results of the tests that have been performed on you.
As reported by the tournament organization, once the results have been returned, provided they are negative, the players will be able to train in a highly controlled and strictly supervised environment for up to five hours a day. Players and their teams will be evaluated every day during the quarantine.
It should be noted that the competition draw will take place Thursday, February 4.
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