{"id":27822,"date":"2021-01-27T19:50:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T20:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=27822"},"modified":"2021-01-27T23:03:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T23:03:22","slug":"covid-hit-murrays-sad-plan-during-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=27822","title":{"rendered":"COVID-hit Murray&#039;s sad plan during Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Murray has entered a lower-tier challenger tournament in Italy next month after withdrawing from the Australian Open with the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Murray is listed to play an indoor tournament in Biella starting February 15 &#8211; while the Australian Open is still on &#8211; the Italian Tennis Federation said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament has 132,000 euros ($208,000) in prize money.<\/p>\n<p>Murray tested positive for COVID-19 shortly before he was due to board a charter flight to Melbourne, where he had been given a wild-card entry.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"088030f2-be16-4bfe-81d5-bde7b4a47644\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/088030f2-be16-4bfe-81d5-bde7b4a47644\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Murray is a former No.1 who is currently ranked 123rd as he works his way back from hip issues that led to two operations.<\/p>\n<p>He last played a challenger event in August 2019 in Mallorca, Spain, while recovering from his hip problems.<\/p>\n<p>Also entered for the Biella tournament are 54th-ranked Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, who also tested positive for COVID-19 before his planned trip to Australia, No.74 Lucas Pouille, Sebastian Korda, Andreas Seppi and Lorenzo Musetti.<\/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>Andy Murray has entered a lower-tier challenger tournament in Italy next month after withdrawing from the Australian Open with the coronavirus. Murray is listed to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=27822\" title=\"COVID-hit Murray&#039;s sad plan during Australian Open\">[&#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\/27822"}],"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=27822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27824,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27822\/revisions\/27824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}