In total, 72 players from three affected flights are now under strict 14-day quarantine measures that will see them confined to their rooms for a fortnight <\/a>without the luxury of a five-hour training window each day.<\/p>\n Under initial Australian Open plans, all players were meant to have a five-hour window to practice, train and eat during quarantine<\/a>. The concession will no longer apply for the 72 under lockdown.<\/p>\n The situation has thrown up questions of fairness for those players now unable to train just weeks out from the first grand slam of the year.<\/p>\n While, Stubbs has been vocal in slamming torrent of backlash from disgruntled stars under lockdown, she did concede the Australian Open now had an uneven playing field.<\/p>\n "Unfortunately, For that percentage of players who are going to be stuck in their rooms for two weeks without practice, they will struggle," Stubbs told WWOS Radio.<\/p>\n "Will they be a little bit disadvantaged, particularly the men because they have to play best of five? Yes, there's no question about it.<\/p>\n "I think all players were really aware that it might be a little bit more disruptive than normal. Obviously having had this happen to them in the last 48 hours, they're really aware now that there's going to be a percentage of them that are really going to have to do this a lot tougher.<\/p>\n "A lot of the players I've talked to have said 'yeah, it really sucks for them'. It's not easy. Every feels sorry for those particular players that were on the plane, but at the same time it was just the luck of the draw a little bit."<\/p>\n Complaining players also copped a serve from Stubbs on Sunday, with the four-time Grand Slam winner turned commentator pointing out that first-round losers at the Australian Open will still bank $100,000.<\/p>\n Stubbs also highlighted a reply from a Twitter user, who said he'd happily spend three months in quarantine for that sum.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/rennaestubbs\/status\/1350600485909233666<\/a><\/p>\n Some players have also expressed anger at being classified as close contacts merely for being on board those flights with people who later tested positive and, therefore, forced into a harsher quarantine than the broader group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Four-time Aussie grand slam doubles champion Rennae Stubbs concedes "there's no question" that the 72 Australian Open players forced into a hard lockdown will be […]<\/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\/24316"}],"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=24316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24318,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24316\/revisions\/24318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Prime\u00a0Minister\u00a0urges\u00a0caution\u00a0as\u00a0Australian\u00a0Open\u00a0players\u00a0begin\u00a0training\"](\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/01\/337473\/pickerImage.jpg\")
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