{"id":25104,"date":"2021-01-21T07:53:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T08:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=25104"},"modified":"2021-01-21T14:13:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T14:13:39","slug":"aussie-tennis-star-flouts-covid-19-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=25104","title":{"rendered":"Aussie tennis star flouts COVID-19 laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World No.1 tennis superstar Ash Barty has apologised after flouting COVID-19 laws while shopping in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian champion was today seen maskless at a Coles store in Prahran in Melbourne&#x27;s inner east, despite Victoria requiring masks be worn inside indoor shopping centres and large retail outlets in the fight against the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE TENNIS NEWS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/australian-open-quarantine-tennis-news-ellen-perez-twitter-roast-video\/268168e3-6dc4-48ce-9706-ca906b11ec0e\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Aussie tennis player Ellen Perez takes down whingeing stars in hilarious Twitter video\">Aussie tennis player Ellen Perez takes down whingeing stars in hilarious Twitter video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barty&#x27;s manager released a statement shortly after, describing her actions as &quot;an innocent mistake&quot; and saying the 24-year-old would get more serious about following virus regulations.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"7de2878b-e661-481f-8da3-f265736bd1bf\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/7de2878b-e661-481f-8da3-f265736bd1bf\" alt=\"Ashleigh Barty at WTA Qatar Total Open 2020 at Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex \" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Barty recently hit out at her international rivals complaining of the strict stance on overseas Australian Open contestants, saying the protocols were about &quot;keeping Melburnians safe&quot; and &quot;making sure we put health first has to be the priority&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE TENNIS NEWS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/australian-open-update-covid19-news-craig-tiley-hotel-quarantine\/e9f7ad62-0399-489a-9477-a2b74c37f994\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Australian Open boss Craig Tiley returns serve at disgruntled tennis stars\">Australian Open boss Craig Tiley returns serve at disgruntled tennis stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Queenslander has been based in Melbourne for several weeks and, unlike international players, doesn&#x27;t have to complete a hotel quarantine.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true)\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>World No.1 tennis superstar Ash Barty has apologised after flouting COVID-19 laws while shopping in Melbourne. The Australian champion was today seen maskless at a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=25104\" title=\"Aussie tennis star flouts COVID-19 laws\">[&#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\/25104"}],"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=25104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25106,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25104\/revisions\/25106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}