{"id":25284,"date":"2021-01-21T18:29:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T19:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=25284"},"modified":"2021-01-21T22:55:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T22:55:58","slug":"australian-open-player-confirms-positive-virus-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=25284","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open player confirms positive virus test"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Spanish tennis player ranked in the top 70 who was forced to quarantine in her hotel room after potentially being exposed to the coronavirus on an Australian Open<\/a> charter flight says she tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n

Paula Badosa, a 23-year-old who reached the fourth round at last year's French Open<\/a>, wrote Thursday on Twitter that she received her test result for the illness caused by the coronavirus on the seventh day of her hard quarantine.<\/p>\n

"I have some bad news," Badosa said in a post written in Spanish and English. "Today I received a positive COVID-19 test result. I'm feeling unwell and have some symptoms, but I'll try to recover as soon as possible listening to the doctors. I've been taken to a health hotel to self isolate and be monitored."<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulabadosa\/status\/1352235757843451905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n

Badosa was among the 72 tennis players who have been placed under a stricter lockdown \u2014 unable to leave their hotel rooms at all for two weeks \u2014 after being on a flight with someone who tested positive upon arrival in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Tennis Australia has refused to identify those dozens of players, but several have posted on social media about being in the hard quarantine.<\/p>\n

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There were 17 tournament charter flights that arrived in Australia over three days last week. Players and their entourages then needed to go through a mandatory 14-day quarantine ahead of the tournament.<\/p>\n

Main-draw play is supposed to begin Feb. 8 at Melbourne Park. As it is, that is a three-week delay to the start of the hard-court major championship because of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

Badosa was on a flight carrying players and others to Melbourne from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n

She is ranked 67th in singles and lost in the second round of the 2020 Australian Open last January. Her career-best Grand Slam singles showing came in October at Roland Garros.<\/p>\n

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