{"id":34652,"date":"2021-02-13T23:29:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T00:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=34652"},"modified":"2021-02-14T01:09:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T01:09:48","slug":"aussie-open-boss-reacts-to-covid-19-bombshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=34652","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Open boss reacts to COVID-19 bombshell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Open boss Craig Tiley has responded to news that an ATP Cup player &#8211; Greece&#x27;s Michail Pervolarakis &#8211; tested positive for COVID-19 shortly after leaving Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Pervolarakis travelled from Australia to South Africa via the Middle East and has since <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/australian-open-greeces-michail-pervolarakis-tests-positive-for-covid-after-leaving-australia-atp-cup\/cd02a996-ad24-4efe-93ce-e6e846296231\" target=\"\" title=\"tested positive for coronavirus\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tested positive for coronavirus<\/a>. He featured with Open superstar Stefanos Tsitsipas during the ATP Cup at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9now.app.link\/fPnKQ6gxndb\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Watch the Australian Open with live streams of every court at 9Now. Click here to start watching!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Watch the Australian Open with live streams of every court at 9Now. Click here to start watching!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"7f4322f6-d440-48cb-9bf8-546cf618278e\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/7f4322f6-d440-48cb-9bf8-546cf618278e\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1919\" data-height=\"1076\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tiley said that all available information had been provided to Victorian health authorities, with the Open already in lockdown due to community transmissions of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We were notified by him of that and we now leave it up to the health authorities. We provided them with all the information yesterday,&quot; Tiley said on Nine.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;While there&#x27;s a link in the fact he left here, on the ninth, five days ago, it&#x27;s going to be really up to the advice of the health authorities, like we&#x27;ve done every single day. We just provide them the information and then they provide advice and make decisions.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The good news for us is he tested [negative] and then left, before he tested positive. There&#x27;s a fair bit of time and travel time; and of course, he&#x27;s travelling to most of the hot spots of the world and the chances of becoming infected in those hot spots is fairly high.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"248c2591-2b9e-4629-8500-2f0baf3ad2b8\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/248c2591-2b9e-4629-8500-2f0baf3ad2b8\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#x27;ll leave all that information for the health authorities and just continue on until we get any advice from them, if we get any at all.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Tiley said that there had been no positive tests within the playing group at the Open. The tournament director played down the Tsitsipas link.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The medical advice that we&#x27;ve seen is the most important thing is that he tested negative and then left the country,&quot; Tiley said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m not going to be a medical expert on this but there&#x27;s a lot of science around the timing of when you test negative and that will be looked at by the health authorities.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Tiley said that the tournament would continue with its ongoing testing practices, rather than players like Tsitsipas now being specifically tested.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmilyBenammar\/status\/1360747852973023232?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmilyBenammar\/status\/1360747852973023232?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Australian Open boss Craig Tiley has responded to news that an ATP Cup player &#8211; Greece&#x27;s Michail Pervolarakis &#8211; tested positive for COVID-19 shortly after <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=34652\" title=\"Aussie Open boss reacts to COVID-19 bombshell\">[&#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\/34652"}],"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=34652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34654,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34652\/revisions\/34654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}