{"id":22626,"date":"2021-01-14T21:20:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T22:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=22626"},"modified":"2021-01-15T04:00:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T04:00:28","slug":"murray-unlikely-to-play-in-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=22626","title":{"rendered":"Murray 'unlikely' to play in Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Murray's participation at the Australian Open is under heavy doubt despite the Scottish star's team speaking with Tennis Australia to find a way to work around his positive coronavirus test<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Murray, 33, was set to arrive in Melbourne on Thursday or Friday on a chartered flight but has now been forced to remain in London and isolate at home after testing positive to the virus.<\/p>\n

With three weeks to go before the Open is due to start, it will be a race against time for Murray, with all players having to test negative and undergo 14 days quarantine.<\/p>\n

It's understood the five-time Australian Open runner-up remains hopeful that he can still compete by travelling to Australia at a later date.<\/p>\n

If Murray was to make the trip Down Under he may need to charter his own plane, which would come at a substantial cost.<\/p>\n

\"Australian<\/p>\n

But former doubles champion Todd Woodbridge believes Murray is a long shot of making it in time to give himself a fair chance of competing at his best. Murray's injury history would make the trip a risky one.<\/p>\n

"All the players needed to catch charter flights in order to make it here in time to go through the quarantine period," Woodbridge told Nine's Today.<\/p>\n

"If he were able to get his own charter to Melbourne he could possibly get here in time. I think that is highly, highly unlikely because Andy has been through major rehabilitation with hip surgeries.<\/p>\n

"For him to arrive late and to only get a couple of days of full court practice before the Australian Open, I don't think he'd take the risk on his body after going through what he has gone through to get to this point in his recovery."<\/p>\n

While Woodbridge is pessimistic about Murray's chances of playing it's understood the star is hoping he could delay his arrival into Melbourne, ahead of the tournament starting on February 8.<\/p>\n

\"Andy<\/p>\n

Murray's team has been in contact with Tennis Australia and tournament director, Craig Tiley, but it is unclear how he'd be able to arrive at a later date due to the restrictions on foreign nationals entering the state on top of everything else.<\/p>\n

Murray has not competed in Melbourne since 2019 when tournament officials gave him a retirement ceremony. That was when was on the verge of ending his career due to a hip injury. He pulled out of the final tournaments of 2020 due to complications associated to the issue.<\/p>\n

Tennis Australia is in the middle of getting 1,200 players and their staff across 15 separate charter flights into Melbourne and Adelaide.<\/p>\n

All the competitors must quarantine, but they will be allowed out of their rooms after a negative test in order to train under strict conditions for five hours each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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