His parents are steeped in French sport, his financier dad bought a Ligue 1 club at 35 and his mum played at Roland Garros… but 18-year-old British tennis ace Arthur Fery is made in Wimbledon Fery was brought up barely a serve and volley away from the All England Club  He will follow in John McEnroe’s footsteps by enrolling at […]

The World No. 13 tennis player has slammed the Victorian Government’s handling of the Australian Open quarantine program, saying the hotel conditions are the same as a “prison” for players. Spanish hothead Roberto Bautista Agut has lashed Victorian health authorities, branding the forced isolation a “complete disaster”. Speaking with Sport5 via mobile phone, the champ said the 14-day Melbourne quarantine […]

Tennis: Putintseva trains in hotel room for Australian Open Rafael Nadal and Dominic Thiem have been slammed for their ‘silence’ over the conditions facing Australian Open players amid a coronavirus lockdown. Novak Djokovic was this week criticised after he made a series of demands to tournament organisers. Djokovic wrote to Australian Open chief Craig Tiley complaining about conditions – even […]

A significant number of Australian Open players have had their plans disrupted after positive coronavirus tests were returned from two of the charter flights to Melbourne. A confirmed group 47 players on flights from Los Angeles and Abu Dhabi will now be forced to spend the full two-week quarantine period in their hotel rooms and won’t be allowed to practice […]

More players and officials landing in Melbourne for the Australian Open are likely to test positive to coronavirus within days after new cases were confirmed among participants arriving for the tennis tournament. Infectious disease experts warned the virus could still be incubating in some of the 1200 who had arrived in Melbourne since Thursday, some from countries considered COVID-19 hotspots. […]

The Australian Open has announced a fourth case of coronavirus, diagnosed in a member of the broadcast team who tested positive after arriving on a flight from Los Angeles. There are now 62 people who have been identified as close contacts, who will have to undergo 14 days of quarantine. More to come. Source: Read Full Article

Novak Djokovic smiles at fans from a hotel balcony in Adelaide Novak Djokovic arrives before heading straight to quarantine for two weeks isolation “This could not be farther from the truth. Not every act is taken at its face value and at times when I see the aftermath of things, I do tend to ask myself if I should just […]

The 2021 Australian Open begins at match point down. Tennis Australia and the state government will spend the next fortnight in the Novak Djokovic position, bouncing the ball over and over on the line. They would not want to double fault. They're at one. Public sentiment has turned against the event. Two factors have fed this. One is the coincidence […]

Tennis star Victoria Azarenka has issued an impassioned plea for fellow players and the public to show some understanding of a delicate situation as quarantine complaints and coronavirus fears dominate the lead-in to next month’s Australian Open. Seventy-two players are in hard quarantine for two weeks, unable to leave their hotel rooms after positive COVID-19 cases were detected on several […]