Due to pressure from local residents, another accommodation has to be found for the two-week isolation in Melbourne.
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–Should Nadal win the Australian Open, he would surpass Federer with his 21st Grand Slam title. But first of all: Bye, Rafa – the tennis professionals are not allowed to reside in the Hotel The Westin.
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The quarantined luxury hotel The Westin in Melbourne’s Business District falls under pressure from local residents before the Australian Open aus. Denn iThere are also private apartments in the same building, and 36 the Owners fought back by all means – ad now successful – dagainst, with hundreds of potentially infizierten To live tennis professionals from all over the world under the same roof They wanted a court order.
Australia is taking rigorous action against the corona virus. Even domestic traffic has been severely restricted in the country. The 25 million nation recorded up to now because even over 16 times fewer infected people (28’517) than Switzerland and over 8 times fewer fatalities (909). As a result of the pandemic, the Australian Open has already been postponed by three weeks (start February 8), and all participants have to undergo a 14-day quarantine, starting January 15.
Crisis talks and an abrupt cancellation
There have to all negativ aon Covid-19 tested willbefore boarding the charter flights to Australia can. There they should retested at least five times while in quarantine. During this time you may aspend outside the room while exercising, whereby they are strictly shielded during transfers between the facility and the hotel.
The apartmentseOwners felt left out, ill-informed, and feared the virus could be spread between floors through ventilation ducts or air conditioning. Already on Monday there were crisis talks between the management of the hotel and several penthouse owners. Allegedly an attempt was made to avert a possible lawsuit through financial compensation, the equivalent of 100’000 Franken.
On Tuesday morning the discussions continued and led to “the abrupt cancellation of the multi-million dollar contract,” as “The Age” wrote. According to information from the most important Melbourne newspaper, this could result in compensation for the Tennis Australia association. It is unclear in which hotel the tennis circus will set up its quarantine tents. Lisa Neville, a Victoria State Minister, said an alternative had already been secured.
–Uncertain future: aerial view of Melbourne Park last August. Several events are to take place here in February, especially the Australian Open.
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Given the international development of the pandemic, it is always questionable whether the Australian Open can actually take placer (The Formula 1 Grand Prix in Melbourne in March is also anything but certain). The start of the tennis season in Australia was already solid togethercompressed. Everythingonst Events before the Australian Open that were spread across the country were canceled or – like the ATP Cup, which was halved by twelve nations – moved to Melbourne.
There should be in the first of Februarywoche now several events take place in parallel, next to the ATP-Cup also two ATP 250 and two WTA 500 tournaments. It is clear that Roger Federer will be absent; he has his Australia trip canceled and will miss the “Happy Slam” for the first time ever.
Three different viewing areas
Tennis Australia negotiated a deal on December 18th after months of talks with the government of the state of Victoria, the es should enable that Grand Slam tournament im February align. The audience wwrite swise reduced. Melbourne Park is to be divided into three separate zones around the three largest stadiums, with the Visitor have to be limited to one. For now is only a quarter of the possible Capacity of over 800,000 spectators in the presale got, in which the Veranstalter hope to be able to increase this up to 50 percent. A.lle Tickets whodin digitalisiert issued to the contacts zu minimize.
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