Dimitrov, Djokovic and his wife<\/a> were among many who tested positive at the event which had little COVID-19 biosecurity measures put in place as Europe was battling the pandemic.<\/p>\n With the Australian Open scheduled for February 8, Tennis Australia officials and the Victorian state government have been busy knocking back requests for softer quarantine protocols, with Djokovic issuing a set of "demands"<\/a> as a number of players spoke out against being confined to their hotel rooms<\/a>.<\/p>\n However, Dimitrov, who said he understood the argument his fellow players were making, admitted it was more important to remember "what's happening outside of tennis".<\/p>\n "Everybody wants to get the best way to prepare for a slam. We can sit here and criticise but it won't help, it is what it is," he told Nine News.<\/em><\/p>\n "It's an authority above us that we have no voice on and no power.<\/p>\n "Tennis Australia has done such an incredible job to schedule the upcoming events in the middle of a pandemic. They've done such a great job<\/p>\n "You can have your own opinion for so many different things but you can't forget what's going on around the world what's happening outside of tennis<\/p>\n "We're a sport that needs to be outside, practising and all these things. But it's the circumstance. We all have to, to some certain extent, make some sort of sacrifice.<\/p>\n "It could happen to anyone. Last year I got this virus, and I was home for three weeks."<\/p>\n Dimitrov also opened up on his battle with coronavirus, revealing he questioned whether making a quick return to the court was the right decision.<\/p>\n "It was not a good time for me when I got it. It put so many things in such a different perspective for me," he added.<\/p>\n "I was thinking, should it take a longer break instead of putting myself in danger again and contracting the virus?"<\/p>\n "It was a big adjustment at the beginning. Slowly but surely, I felt I was progressing and moving through how I wanted to live.<\/p>\n "I could get it again. I could get stuck somewhere again.<\/p>\n "We're not out of danger yet, we need to be respectable and 100 per cent accountable for our actions."<\/p>\n The former world No. 3 admitted his "physicality" was hit the hardest as he ultimately lost weight and was forced to "rebuild" his health.<\/p>\n "The first days were the hardest and toughest for me. I let my physicality drop, it took me a month to get back to some sort of level," Dimitrov said.<\/p>\n "I had to do stress tests. My cardio dropped a lot. My muscles, I lost quite a bit of weight.<\/p>\n "It wasn't that bad, but as an athlete, it takes so much time to rebuild and regather your strength. I've never been sick-sick, and I've never had a major injury.<\/p>\n "I was physically good, but my health was not on a good level."<\/p>\n 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> clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bulgarian tennis star Grigor Dimitrov has hit back at his fellow opponents calling for softer quarantine standards, with the world No. 19 declaring that "some […]<\/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\/27624"}],"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=27624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27626,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27624\/revisions\/27626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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