Three-time Grand Slam winner Murray isolating at house and nonetheless hopes to journey to play at Australian Open, which will get underway on February 8; Murray is a five-time finalist in Melbourne, most lately in 2016; Madison Keys out of Grand Slam after constructive check
Final Up to date: 14/01/21 3:51pm
Andy Murray was awarded a wild card to compete on the Australian Open
Former world No 1 Andy Murray has examined constructive for coronavirus, however remains to be hoping to play on the Australian Open subsequent month.
The 33-year-old Brit was attributable to journey to Australia on one of many 18 constitution flights laid on by event organisers however remains to be isolating at house.
Murray, who is claimed to be in good well being, is hoping to have the ability to arrive in Australia at a later date and nonetheless participate within the event, which begins on February 8.
The three-time Grand Slam winner is a five-time finalist on the Melbourne occasion, together with his final look coming in 2019 the place he was overwhelmed within the first spherical by Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut earlier than present process a second hip operation.
Craig Tiley has been working with Murray’s workforce to attempt to provide you with an appropriate answer however an announcement from the Australian Open didn’t seem to supply him an excessive amount of hope
Murray and his workforce are working intently with event director Craig Tiley to attempt to provide you with an appropriate answer, which might permit him to participate within the 12 months’s opening Grand Slam.
Event organisers spent a number of months negotiating an association that was acceptable to native and nationwide authorities businesses concerning the admission of greater than 1,000 tennis gamers and related personnel to Australia.
Gamers are attributable to start arriving within the nation inside the subsequent 24 hours, earlier than finishing a two-week interval of quarantine, throughout which they’re allowed out of their rooms to practise for 5 hours a day.
An announcement from the Australian Open didn’t seem to supply Murray an excessive amount of hope, saying: “Andy Murray has suggested that he has examined constructive to COVID-19 and is isolating at house within the UK.
“Sadly this implies he will probably be unable to affix the official AO constitution flights arriving in Australia within the coming days to undergo the quarantine interval with the opposite gamers.
“The AO followers love Andy, and we all know how a lot he loves competing right here in Melbourne and the way arduous he’d labored for this chance.”
Murray hopes a protected answer could be discovered so he can take part in Melbourne subsequent month
Murray will probably be persevering with his comeback this 12 months in some unspecified time in the future, having at one stage feared the 2019 Australian Open could be his last event as an expert attributable to ongoing hip issues.
He subsequently had profitable surgical procedure and gained a event in Antwerp later that 12 months.
Murray wanted a wild card into the Australian Open draw as his world rating is at present 123.
Keys out of Aus Open after constructive check
World quantity 16 Madison Keys will miss the Australian Open
American Madison Keys mentioned on Thursday she examined constructive for the coronavirus and can miss the Australian Open
The world quantity 16 mentioned she returned a constructive consequence earlier than she was attributable to journey to Australia and is now self-isolating at her house.
“I sadly examined constructive for Covid-19 earlier than I used to be speculated to fly to Australia,” Keys posted on Twitter.
“I am very disillusioned to not have the ability to play within the coming weeks after coaching arduous within the low season and figuring out Tennis Australia and the excursions did a lot to make these occasions occur.”
Keys’ finest efficiency on the Australian Open got here as she reached the semi-finals in 2015. The 25-year-old’s solely Grand Slam last look got here in 2017 as she completed as runner-up on the US Open.
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