"I'm staying home," says Isner. "At this stage of my career and in my life I've always had visions of being able to travel with my family. … It really was just a situation where I didn't want to be away from my family for that long."<\/p>\n
https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenRothenberg\/status\/1348808460457172995<\/a>https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenRothenberg\/status\/1348810854389714954<\/a><\/p>\n It comes as Victoria's Police Minister Lisa Neville ensured players traveling to Melbourne would be held to the strictest of protocols <\/a>from the minute they touchdown.<\/p>\n "We have the strongest and strictest rules that apply to tennis across the world.<\/p>\n "The is the strictest program in the world in terms of hotel quarantine," she said.<\/p>\n Ms Neville said all players and their teams must be tested before leaving the country they are in and must return a negative result.<\/p>\n Anyone who tests positive on the plane will be immediately placed into a health hotel on arrival in Melbourne.<\/p>\n "The program has been designed around potential for positive cases to arrive in tennis players and entourage," the minister said.<\/p>\n Players and their support person – a coach or physio for example – will face strict limitations on movement and be tested every day, they will also be escorted by COVID marshals to and from facilities.<\/p>\n 130 minutes will be allocated to court practice time, 90 minutes to a gym session and 60 minutes to a nutrition session before immediately returning to their hotel.<\/p>\n Players are not allowed to mix with anyone outside their bubbles and there can be no crossover between hotels.<\/p>\n Ms Neville said crowd numbers for the open were still being worked through by the Chief Health Officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The biosecurity restrictions attached to the 2021 Australian Open have claimed its first major scalp after top-ranked US men's star John Isner announced he would […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21425,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21423\/revisions\/21425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Strict](\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/01\/336573\/S-GTV-AUSOPEN-QUARANTINE-12_frame_31024.jpeg\")
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