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Australian Open: things stir in the bubble

2021-01-18T19:13:50.838Z


STORY - In quarantine, with short slots for training or in isolation, players are trying to adjust for the first Grand Slam.


The unobstructed view of a hotel room overlooking Melbourne is cut short by the repeated passage of a bullet.

The Swiss Belinda Bencic practically rehearses the backhand scales against the window.

In Melbourne, while waiting for the Australian Open, there are players who deal with forty fourteen days, like Bill Murray with the boredom between two insomnia in

Lost in Translation.

And there are those who denounce the disparity in treatment between the actors:

"Would all the players have boarded the plane if they had known that if one of the 80 passengers was positive, they would have to be put in strict quarantine? ?

I don't know whether Nadal or Djokovic would have come if they had had the same hotel as us ”,

Austrian Philipp Oswald (47th player in doubles) on the Tennisnet website.

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Flashback: on January 5, on Twitter, the Australian Open broadcast the images of the fresh paint placed on the lines, part of the Melbourne blue courts.

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Source: lefigaro

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