Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley said players had been made aware of the dangers of being isolated when they arrived in the country.
A total of 47 players have been told they must stay in their hotel rooms for 14 days after three positive tests for coronavirus on charter flights carrying their athletes and support teams.
Tiley and his team worked for months to reach an agreement where players would get out of their rooms for five hours each day during the two-week quarantine to do gym work and gym work. but these carefully executed plans are now in tattoo.
Several players responded to the news with shock and anger on social media, and Tiley sympathized with those sentiments.
He told Channel 9 TV: “I fully understand the feeling the players are going through at the moment as well as the complaint about the situation.
“Deciding who was and who has not been closely linked to the health sector will be entirely up to them, and they are doing what they think is necessary to keep our community safe.
“Indeed, what has changed over the last few weeks is a new, more contagious UK strain, and it is clear that we all have a strong desire to ensure that this does not come into our community. .
“These conditions are always changing, but there is always a risk. We made it very clear at the beginning, which is why our player groups were in concert, there was always a risk that someone would be positive then and we would have to go into 14 day of loneliness, there was a danger on the plane that you would be intimately connected, there was a danger that everyone could be nearby.
“It’s unfortunate that we are in an environment now where we have to manage it.”
Britain’s Heather Watson is among the 47 along with grand slam champions Victoria Azarenka, Angelique Kerber and Bianca Andreescu, whose coach Sylvain Bruneau revealed she was the source of one of the three progressive trials.
The players should be on their own before the warm-up of the week of the warm-up events on January 31 but it is clear that they will not be in a peak state to compete.
Tiley dismissed any suggestion that the Australian Open, which has already been pushed back three weeks, could be postponed, but said the players will be supported in any way possible, giving her -in delivery of exercise equipment to their rooms.
He said: “It’s a difficult situation and we need to do what we can to make it as fair as possible for those players who are locking in now. Obviously our first goal is to make everyone as healthy as possible and not a cause for further spread within the bubbles.
“The Australian Open starts on February 8th. We are reviewing the inbound schedule to see what we can do to help these players. ”
The fact that the Australian Open has been allowed to go ahead has been controversial due to Victoria ‘s hard work in tackling coronavirus and even though there are thousands of Australians still crossing due to restrictions on numbers allowed into the country.
News of positive tests will push the fires further as it is unlikely to help the cause of Andy Murray, who hopes to enter into a compromise later after Covid-19 contract and missing the charter plane while alone at home in Surrey.
There have also been reports of positive testing among the group of key players and their practice partners who are quarantined in Adelaide.
Serbian media reported that fitness trainer Filip Krajinovic, Novak Djokovic’s practice partner, had tested positive but would not allow calls to be separated because he had recently recovered from the virus and had not. e contagious.
A similar reason was given for allowing American player Tennys Sandgren to travel despite a positive test on Monday.
Read a message on the Australian Open Twitter link: “Adelaide Update: SA Health has confirmed that no one with active COVID-19 infection in the entire tennis group is based in Adelaide. Tests will continue every day. ”
There have already been complaints from other players about the favorable treatment seen for the group in Adelaide, which also includes Rafael Nadal, Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka.