{"id":4159,"date":"2020-12-02T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4159"},"modified":"2020-12-02T08:56:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T08:56:40","slug":"australian-open-start-date-locked-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4159","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open start date locked in"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Australian Open is set to go ahead despite fears the tournament would be cancelled.<\/a><\/p>\n

A start date of February 8 has now been locked in after tournament boss Craig Tiley sent out a note to players outlining the strict biosecurity guidelines according to The Age<\/em> and the Sydney Morning Herald.<\/em><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

It's understood players will be allowed to train during their during 14-day quarantine periods once they test negative to COVID-19 on the second day of isolation. <\/p>\n

COVID-19 testing will occur on days one, three, seven, 10 and 14 of the quarantine period. Players will undertake their quarantine duties from January 15.<\/p>\n

\"Novak<\/p>\n

After reports surfaced earlier suggesting that the tournament was potentially in doubt, Tennis Australia on Tuesday released a statement saying that a start date for the Australian Open was still being finalised.<\/p>\n

Speaking on 2GB's Wide World of Sports Radio<\/em>, Australian tennis great Todd Woodbridge rubbished reports<\/a> of a possible cancellation.<\/p>\n

"I can tell you that that is most definitely not the case. We are going to have an Australian Open for sure, so that was relieving in itself," he said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

"We can pretty much look towards the beginning of February. We're not, now with quarantine, going to be able to get players on the court for an Australian Open in the dates that were set down originally."<\/p>\n

\"Todd<\/p>\n

While he was confident about the Australian Open taking place, Woodbridge was less confident about the ATP Cup, which made its debut in the lead-up to this year's Open.<\/p>\n

"I don't see that it is possible to have the ATP Cup now," he said.<\/p>\n

"It was 24 nations with a chance to play. We're now trying to bring everybody in. They need a tournament to play and you can't get everybody match practice in that week leading into the Australian Open.<\/p>\n

"So I think we're going to have to look at a generalised tournament and maybe some different levels of tournament too so that everyone can get some match play before the Australian Open."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Australian Open is set to go ahead despite fears the tournament would be cancelled. A start date of February 8 has now been locked […]<\/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\/4159"}],"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=4159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4161,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159\/revisions\/4161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}