{"id":30512,"date":"2021-02-04T05:43:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T06:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=30512"},"modified":"2021-02-04T09:58:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T09:58:30","slug":"first-sign-of-player-unrest-amid-fresh-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=30512","title":{"rendered":"First sign of player unrest amid fresh lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

French world No.28 Benoit Paire<\/a> has become the first player to show unrest after players and staff associated with the tournament were sent into isolation due to a hotel quarantine worker from the Grand Hyatt testing positive to COVID-19.<\/p>\n

Nearly 600 people who are part of this year's tournament – including players and staff – were identified as casual contacts on Wednesday night and are currently isolating until they receive a negative test result. Those results are all expected in by this evening.<\/p>\n

"We fully expect them all to test negative and return to play tomorrow," Australian Open boss Craig Tiley told reporters on Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\n

"We're absolutely confident the Australian Open is going to go ahead.<\/p>\n

"We are full steam ahead."<\/p>\n

\"Benoit<\/p>\n

The decision to send players, who previously underwent a mandatory quarantine period once they arrived in Australia, appeared to be a tricky one for Paire to come to grips with as he tried to hold back his emotions in a series of tweets.<\/p>\n

"As luck would have it one more day of isolation for the players who were at Hyatt and what hotel do you think I was in?" Paire tweeted which was translated to English.<\/p>\n

"It's getting complicated to play tennis. I'm going to avoid saying what I think about Covid because I'm going to annoy a lot of them."<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/benoitpaire\/status\/1357205391323459587<\/a><\/p>\n

"And beware, I am not complaining, life is even more complicated than me for many (who do not have the Covid)," he added.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/benoitpaire\/status\/1357207648886693888<\/a><\/p>\n

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French world No.28 Benoit Paire has become the first player to show unrest after players and staff associated with the tournament were sent into isolation […]<\/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\/30512"}],"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=30512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30514,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30512\/revisions\/30514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}