Tomic in hard lockdown, unable to train ahead of Australian Open, girlfriend says

Bernard Tomic's girlfriend Vanessa Sierra has slammed the quarantine living conditions in Melbourne, revealing the pair have been unable to do any exercise whatsoever in the lead-up to the Australian Open.

Sierra uploaded a video to social media outlining the couple's experience and said they had been kept in the dark after multiple training sessions were cancelled at the last minute.

Sierra uploaded a video to social media outlining the couple’s experience and said they had been kept in the dark after multiple training sessions were cancelled last-minute.Credit:YouTube/Vanessa Sierra

Tomic and Sierra travelled to Melbourne from Doha where Tomic qualified for the Australian Open.

The flight, which landed on Saturday, was the third confirmed to have had a positive case of COVID-19. The couple are now under a hard lockdown.

With no room to train in the small hotel room, the pair have only been able to do small amounts of yoga in preparation

Tomic has been ordering $200 a day in takeaway meals, Sierra said.

"Other than [yoga], we aren't really training or anything so that's why it's really important that we do get to the training site because you just can't in this hotel room," she said. "It's just not feasible."

The former Love Island contestant said the couple had been spending 11 hours a day playing World of Warcraft and other games to keep entertained as training sessions continued to be cancelled at the last minute.

There are now 72 players in isolation after a person on a third flight into Melbourne returned a positive test.

The strict lockdown prompted a wave of anger from players, some of whom claimed they had not been told a positive test on a plane would force all passengers on that plane to be confined to their rooms for 14 days, unable to train.

“The point of the bubble is you’re supposed to stay in the hotel room, during the day you’re allowed out to the training site, to the gym, but there were a couple of positive COVID-19 cases on a couple of the planes and that’s pretty much delayed everything,” Sierra said.

"It's kinda shitty that three weeks before a tournament no one can train.

"They're not really telling us what's going on."

Sierra said the pair were unable to get fresh air with no windows in their room and had been washing dishes in the bathroom sink.

The couple have also been forced to keep their blinds closed while photographers attempt to get photos of Tomic in quarantine.

"They were sitting there with a camera so we aren't allowed daylight any more because of this," she said.

Sierra said she was eager to leave quarantine to "get her hair done".

"This is the worst part of quarantine," she said.

"I don't wash my own hair I've never washed my own hair. It's just not something that I do. I usually have hairdressers that do it twice a week for me."

The Australian Open is scheduled to start on February 8.

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