{"id":26571,"date":"2021-01-24T19:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=26571"},"modified":"2021-01-25T00:09:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T00:09:29","slug":"extra-tournament-for-hard-quarantine-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=26571","title":{"rendered":"Extra tournament for hard quarantine players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Women&#x27;s Tennis Association has announced a new tournament in Melbourne for players undergoing a 14-day quarantine without an opportunity to practice ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/australian-open\" title=\"the Australian Open\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Australian Open<\/a> beginning February 8.<\/p>\n<p>The new tournament will be staged from February 3-7 and will cater for players who have not been able to train. A total of 72 players remain in hard lockdown after three chartered flights to the Australian Open returned positive COVID-19 cases.<\/p>\n<p>Two ATP men&#x27;s tournaments will be pushed back 24 hours to start on February 1 and the ATP Cup will get underway a day later.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"cd3111fa-74a6-48f9-95f7-9180558a3000\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/cd3111fa-74a6-48f9-95f7-9180558a3000\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>WTA players in hard quarantine include former Australian Open champions Victoria Azarenka and Angelique Kerber as well as 2019 US Open winner Bianca Andreescu.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This has been a particularly challenging time for the athletes in hard lockdown and we, along with the WTA and ATP, aim to do everything we can to help,&quot; Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley said Sunday.<\/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>The Women&#x27;s Tennis Association has announced a new tournament in Melbourne for players undergoing a 14-day quarantine without an opportunity to practice ahead of the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=26571\" title=\"Extra tournament for hard quarantine players\">[&#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\/26571"}],"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=26571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26573,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26571\/revisions\/26573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}