{"id":24278,"date":"2021-01-19T01:48:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T02:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=24278"},"modified":"2021-01-19T03:56:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T03:56:34","slug":"imprisoned-star-slams-opens-complete-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=24278","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Imprisoned&#039; star slams Open&#039;s &#039;complete disaster&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish world No.13 Roberto Bautista Agut has likened hard quarantine to prison and said of the Victorian government: &quot;These people have no idea&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista Agut copped a <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/australian-open-covid-19-quarantine-crisis-sorana-cirstea-yulina-putintseva-complaints\/4ec738b2-1747-4bfe-8df6-83a59fed90ba\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"hard lockdown\">hard lockdown<\/a> after arriving on one of several charter flights to Australia affected by positive tests for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>When an interviewer from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sport5il\/status\/1351208945529061380\" title=\"Israel&#x27;s Sport 5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Israel&#x27;s Sport 5<\/a> suggested that it looked like he was in prison, Bautista Agut replied, via FaceTime: &quot;It&#x27;s the same, it&#x27;s the same &#8211; with wifi.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;These people has no idea about tennis, about practice courts, has no idea about anything.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s a complete disaster because of that, because of the control of everything.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"b1a05a27-7e81-4886-bfd1-fe87f3636666\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/b1a05a27-7e81-4886-bfd1-fe87f3636666\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard levelled blame at the Victorian Government, rather than Tennis Australia.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s not Tennis Australia, it&#x27;s the people from the government,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#x27;You can work in the room but it&#x27;s not the same. I feel very, very tight and I cannot imagine staying two weeks like this.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s really, really tough. I will have to work a lot mentally.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>A total of 72 players have been forced into a fortnight of hard quarantine. There was an <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/australian-open-covid-19-quarantine-crisis-sorana-cirstea-yulina-putintseva-complaints\/4ec738b2-1747-4bfe-8df6-83a59fed90ba\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"initial outpouring of anger\">initial outpouring of anger<\/a> among those players, and others in regular quarantine, though complaints have eased due to major backlash from Victorians who have endured long lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Spanish world No.13 Roberto Bautista Agut has likened hard quarantine to prison and said of the Victorian government: &quot;These people have no idea&quot;. Bautista Agut <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=24278\" title=\"&#039;Imprisoned&#039; star slams Open&#039;s &#039;complete disaster&#039;\">[&#8230;]<\/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\/24278"}],"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=24278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24280,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24278\/revisions\/24280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}