Ash Barty and Nick Kyrgios to play in the Australian Open
Two of Australia’s biggest tennis players, Ash Barty and Nick Kyrgios, will play in the warm-up events in Victoria and the Australian Open in Victoria.
How great is it that Victoria, the state that was in lockdown for 112 days, gets to host Australia’s summer of tennis along with the first Grand Slam of the year, the Australian Open?
Tennis Australia has confirmed Victoria will host the summer of Australian tennis.
Usually, the pre-Australian Open tournaments are held in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, and Hobart via The Age.
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Tennis Australia made this move to make sure the players are all safe from Covid-19. All the players will fly into Melbourne for a two-week quarantine.
The players can move and travel freely around Victoria after they complete their two-week quarantine with some of the warm-up events to be played in Regional Victoria.
Tennis Australia will run a hub model, which will attract the strongest world-class tennis talent in the lead up to the Australian Open.
550 players and their teams will come down under to feature in the summer of Australian tennis in Victoria from mid-December.
Tennis Australia will put into place a hub model. Hopefully, the hub will allow the Australian Open to go ahead without any Covid issues and avoid what happened in September at the Washington tennis tournament in the lead up to the US Open.
The hub model will work because the players will be able to train and play but only restricted to their hotels or tennis courts but only after completing their two-week quarantine.
Tennis Australia understands they will need to have a hard lockdown for the players and teams as many of the players and teams are international. Via the Age, The Premier of Victoria, Daniel Andrews says that all of the tournaments are still not settled to be played in Victoria, but is highly likely it will.
How good will it be to have the world’s best players in Dominic Thiem, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic back on Australian soil?
Australia’s top women’s player and world number #1 Ash Barty and Australia’s Nick Kyrgios will play in the Australian events after this year, not playing overseas due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Tennis Australia hopes to have at least 25 percent crowd capacity at the events, and this will be great to restrain the summer of Australian tennis to Victoria.
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It will be an added boost to helping Victoria get back bigger and stronger after being heavily impacted by coronavirus and closed off from the rest of Australia.