AusLeisure

Thursday's matches at Australian Open warm-up events in Melbourne Park have been cancelled after a hotel quarantine worker tested positive to COVID-19.

With the infected man having last worked at quarantine hotel the Grand Hyatt on 29^th January, up to 600 players and support staff connected to the season's first Grand Slam will now have to isolate until they have been tested.

In a statement, Tennis Australia, organisers of the Australia Open, advised yesterday evening about lead-up events for the Australian Open, amid fear of further spread of the virus.

The statement advised “we will work with everyone involved to facilitate testing as quickly as possible

"There will be no matches at Melbourne Park on Thursday. An update on the schedule for Friday will be announced later today."

Emphasising that the Australian Open will go ahead as of next week, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews advised "there's a number of - about 500 or 600 people - that are either players and officials and others who are casual contacts.

"They will be isolating until they get a negative test. And that work will be done (on Thursday).

"At this stage, there's no impact to the tournament (Australian Open) proper."

Related Articles

1st February 2021 - Work completed on Melbourne Park’s new Show Court Arena roof

30th January 2021 - Victorian Government approves crowd limit of 30,000 per day for Australian Open

29th January 2021 - Australian Open tennis players start leaving hotel quarantine

21st January 2021 - Tennis Australia commits to Australian Open and paying for players’ hotel quarantine

12th January 2021 - Australian Open players and officials to face world’s ‘strictest rules for tennis’

8th January 2021 - 30,000 children to get a taste of Australian Open as part of new school holiday program

7th January 2021 - Melbourne Park to be divided into three zones to ensure fan safety at Australian Open

23rd December 2020 - Melbourne Park’s three main venues to operate with at least 25% capacity for Australian Open

19th December 2020 - Victorian Government confirms Australian Open’s February dates and future at Melbourne Park

17th December 2020 - ATP reveals 2021 schedule with Australian Open to start on 8th February

2nd December 2020 - Australian Open to be moved back to February to allow player quarantine period

4th October 2020 - Australian Open looks for 2021 event to run at half capacity

13th August 2020 - Tennis Australia’s Craig Tiley anticipates 2021 Australian Open will go ahead with fans in Melbourne

28th July 2020 - Golf Australia advises that Australian Open will not be held this year

3rd July 2020 - Tennis Australia commits to staging 2021 Australian Open in Melbourne

4th February 2020 - Australian Open 2020 welcomes largest ever tournament crowds

---

Support our industry news service
We hope that you value the news that we publish so while you're here can we ask for your support?

As an independent publisher, we need reader support for our industry news gathering so ask that - if you don't already do so - you back us by subscribing to the printed Australasian Leisure Management magazine and/or our online news.