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Melbourne News just reported this:
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It's been confirmed the two positive cases are an aircrew member and an #AusOpen participant who isn’t a player. The passenger tested NEGATIVE pre-departure. Both have been taken to a health hotel in Melbourne. All remaining 66 passengers have been deemed close contacts.
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POSITIVE CASES ON AUS OPEN CHARTER FLIGHT
Tennis players, coaches and officials on a charter flight from the U.S. which landed in Melbourne yesterday have been forced in 14 days hard lockdown after two passengers tested positive to COVID-19.
Players were originally given a daily 5-hour exemption to leave their rooms to train in the lead up to the Australian Open but an urgent email from Tennis Australia to passengers on board flight QR7493 shows they will now be forced to stay put in their hotel rooms.
Kazakhstani-Russian player Elena Rybakina (pictured) is among the players who arrived at Melbourne’s Grand Hyatt yesterday. There is no suggestion she is one of the positive cases.
“Unfortunately, we have been informed by the health authorities that two people on your flight from LAX that arrived at 5:15am on Friday 15 January have returned positive COVID-19 PCR tests on arrival to Melbourne,” the email said.
“The Chief Health Officer has reviewed the flight and has determined that everyone on board needs to isolate and will be confined to their rooms for the 14 day quarantine period.
“We know this is not how you imagined your preparations for the AO would start but our entire team is here to support and do everything we can to get your through this.”
The flight is the same flight American player Tennys Sandgren tweeted he was allowed to board despite returning a positive shedding test. His case is reportedly not one of the two referenced in the email.
** UPDATE**
It's been confirmed the two positive cases are an aircrew member and an #AusOpen participant who isn’t a player. The passenger tested NEGATIVE pre-departure. Both have been taken to a health hotel in Melbourne. All remaining 66 passengers have been deemed close contacts.
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POSITIVE CASES ON AUS OPEN CHARTER FLIGHT
Tennis players, coaches and officials on a charter flight from the U.S. which landed in Melbourne yesterday have been forced in 14 days hard lockdown after two passengers tested positive to COVID-19.
Players were originally given a daily 5-hour exemption to leave their rooms to train in the lead up to the Australian Open but an urgent email from Tennis Australia to passengers on board flight QR7493 shows they will now be forced to stay put in their hotel rooms.
Kazakhstani-Russian player Elena Rybakina (pictured) is among the players who arrived at Melbourne’s Grand Hyatt yesterday. There is no suggestion she is one of the positive cases.
“Unfortunately, we have been informed by the health authorities that two people on your flight from LAX that arrived at 5:15am on Friday 15 January have returned positive COVID-19 PCR tests on arrival to Melbourne,” the email said.
“The Chief Health Officer has reviewed the flight and has determined that everyone on board needs to isolate and will be confined to their rooms for the 14 day quarantine period.
“We know this is not how you imagined your preparations for the AO would start but our entire team is here to support and do everything we can to get your through this.”
The flight is the same flight American player Tennys Sandgren tweeted he was allowed to board despite returning a positive shedding test. His case is reportedly not one of the two referenced in the email.
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Nishikori, Cuevas and Santiago Gonzalez are confirmed to have been on that flight and are now in a 14-day hard lockdown in hotel quarantine. This means that they wont be able to train. 24 players were on that flight (out of the overall 66 people including coaches and staff) who have to hard quarantine. I wonder who the other 21 players were!
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OUT: Davidovich Fokina
IN: Lucky Loser (Dzumhur, in all likelihood)
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OUT: Davidovich Fokina
IN: Lucky Loser (Dzumhur, in all likelihood)
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He posted on Insta 5 days ago saying Melbourne ATP 250 then AO21
Murray won't participate in Australian Open
Andy Murray announced he would not be playing in the upcoming Australian Open after being unable to negotiate a "workable quarantine" with Tennis Australia following his positive COVID-19 test.
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murray appears to be out unless they change quarantine rules
the draw wont be made until Feb 4th
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in the Guardian article about Murray today they also wrote that Joao Sousa hoped to catch a commercial flight to Melbourne. So he did not make it on any of the official flights meaning that he probably will have to withdraw for not catching one of the official flights
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Yeah, as of right now Sousa is in Barcelona, and had earlier (sometime in the last week) had a positive COVID test so it looks really doubtful for him, especially given the Murray news.
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Australian Open update:
OUT: J. Sousa
IN: Stebe (LL)
| (LL) Hugo Dellien | 112 | ||
| (Q) Aslan Karatsev | 113 | ||
| (LL) Taro Daniel | 117 | ||
| (LL) Damir Dzumhur | 119 | ||
| (WC) Christopher O'Connell | 120 | ||
| (WC) Marc Polmans | 124 | ||
| (LL) Cedrik-Marcel Stebe | 126 | ||
| (Q) Henri Laaksonen | 133 | ||
| (WC) Sumit Nagal | 137 | ||
| (Q) Carlos Alcaraz | 142 | ||
| (Q) Botic Van de Zandschulp | 156 | ||
| (Q) Maxime Cressy | 168 | ||
| (WC) Alex Bolt | 172 | ||
| (Q) Michael Mmoh | 174 | ||
| (Q) Kimmer Coppejans | 175 | ||
| (Q) Roman Safiullin | 181 | ||
| (Q) Frederico Ferreira Silva | 182 | ||
| (Q) Mario Vilella Martinez | 186 | ||
| (WC) Aleksandar Vukic | 195 | ||
| (Q) Tomas Machac | 197 | ||
| (Q) Sergiy Stakhovsky | 201 | ||
| (Q) Viktor Troicki | 202 | ||
| (Q) Elias Ymer | 204 | ||
| (Q) Quentin Halys | 206 | ||
| (Q) Bernard Tomic | 228 | ||
| (WC) Thanasi Kokkinakis | 264 | ||
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Yes!!! Still no Barrere 
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Barrere has decided not to travel to Australia after Q3 lossYes!!! Still no Barrere
Yes!!! Still no Barrere
seems that the next in order would be
torpegaard
haase
muller
gojo
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Torpegaard is now in the main draw according to his instagram.
5 LL are now in
i see 2 WC spots with murray not listed
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OUT: Johnson
IN: Torpegaard (LL)
Next LL: Haase
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It's a 99.9% certainly that the original leftover WC is for Alexei Popyrin (no idea they aren't announcing it, he already basically confirmed it on his insta) As far as the one opened up by Murray, no idea who they'll give it to, i'm presuming they'll hand it off to an Australian but there are a couple on-site LL's still there too, maybe a reward for being willing to originally travel and quarantine without a guarantee of playing
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