{"id":30523,"date":"2021-02-04T02:36:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T03:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=30523"},"modified":"2021-02-04T09:58:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T09:58:52","slug":"full-steam-ahead-for-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=30523","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Full steam ahead&#039; for Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Open boss Craig Tiley says it is &quot;full steam ahead&quot; for the tournament despite a COVID-19 scare that <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/tennis-australia-covid-19-coronavirus-outbreak\/c61ab7c7-7a30-459a-be96-6c6205aebcae\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"caused play in warm-up matches to be abandoned today.\">caused play in warm-up matches to be abandoned today.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bullish Tiley fronted media in Melbourne and said the AO would start on Monday as planned with no changes to the draw.<\/p>\n<p>After a AO quarantine worker tested positive to coronavirus, nearly 600 people associated with the tournament &#8211; including players and staff &#8211; were identified as casual contacts and are isolating until they receive a negative test result.<\/p>\n<p>Those results are all expected in by this evening.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6228627900001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/02\/340281\/pickerImage.jpg\" alt=\"Kyrgios fumes at time violation\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ckkp6w9fv001z0gpb8rsaimzq\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;We fully expect them all to test negative and return to play tomorrow,&quot; Tiley told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#x27;re absolutely confident the Australian Open is going to go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We are full steam ahead.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The scare has, however, forced organisers to delay the AO draw from today until tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Tiley said a revised draw for the warm-up tournaments would be released by 6pm today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shanemcinnes\/status\/1357171014782754816?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/shanemcinnes\/status\/1357171014782754816?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;We have a few options in regards to the draw and format,&quot; Tiley said of the warm-up tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We fully intend to stick to the original (AO) schedule&#8230; and continue with the lead-in events.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The players have been fantastic, all gone and got tested.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They&#x27;re very supportive of what we&#x27;re doing.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Australian Open boss Craig Tiley says it is &quot;full steam ahead&quot; for the tournament despite a COVID-19 scare that caused play in warm-up matches to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=30523\" title=\"&#039;Full steam ahead&#039; for 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\/30523"}],"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=30523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30529,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30523\/revisions\/30529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}