"Wow I'm on the plane," he continued in a follow-up tweet.<\/p>\n
"Maybe I just held my breath too long.. Craig Tiley is a wizard."<\/p>\n
https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennysSandgren\/status\/1349521651801620480<\/a><\/p>\n Reports soon emerged, however, that the plane had been turned around on the tarmac before take-off.<\/p>\n "Heard from several passengers on board now that the #AusOpen flight leaving from LAX has been forced to returned to its gate," veteran tennis journalist Ben Rothenberg tweeted.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenRothenberg\/status\/1349532383356268546<\/a><\/p>\n The Australian Open issued a statement amid the unfolding chaos reiterating that some people can test positive to the virus months after first contracting it, without remaining infectious.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustralianOpen\/status\/1349542002958888960<\/a><\/p>\n "Some people who have recovered from COVID-19 and who are non-infectious can continue to shed the virus for several months," the statement said.<\/p>\n "Vic government public health experts assess each case based on additional detailed medical records to ensure they are not infectious before checking in to the charter flights.<\/p>\n "Players and their teams are tested every day from their arrival in Australia, a much stricter process than for anyone else in hotel quarantine."<\/p>\n It was not clear whether Sandgren was still on the plane when it took off for a second time.<\/p>\n Australian Open organisers have chartered 15 flights, with around 1200 players, support staff and tennis officials arriving in Australia from today.<\/p>\n Controversial US tennis star Tennys Sandgren has been allowed onto a plane destined for the Australian Open despite testing positive for COVID-19. The world No.50 […]<\/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\/22251"}],"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=22251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22253,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22251\/revisions\/22253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"