Player anger as almost 50 deemed close contacts, sent into hard lockdown

Forty-seven players across two flights were forced into hard quarantine for two weeks from Saturday after two of the Australian Open charter flights carrying players to Melbourne had COVID-19 positive cases. Twenty-three of those players were on the flight from Abu Dhabi, the others from Los Angeles.

Belinda Bencic was among the players who took to social media to air their disappointment with their situation.show on Sunday morning that the players were warned the final decision on who would have to do hard quarantine if there was a positive test on a flight was always going to be up to the health authorities.

"We never know what the situation or decision would be coming in, and that has been made, and now we have to manage an environment over the next 14 days for those players who unfortunately are not going to have the same conditions as those who are able to get out and practise." "But we are in this situation, we have to deal with it, the Australian Open is going ahead. And we will continue to do the best we can possibly do to ensure those players have what is not a great situation, one that is somewhat acceptable."

"It's far from ideal obviously, but COVID is far from ideal," she said. "Every Victorian and everyone who wishes to be in Victoria needs to abide by the rules. Whether they are playing or non-playing staff … all the prerequisites were made very, very clear."

AnthColangelo They came for the money anyways... so put up or shut up. We in control.. and oh yes...welcome to Australia. If you don't like it GO!!!

AnthColangelo I think the best thing the government can do atm is invite hundreds of people from into Vic from all over the world to play a game... invitees from the world's worst covid hotspots some

AnthColangelo I don’t care about their ‘wave of anger’. Australians lives should come before your damn tennis and income. And containing Covid saves lives.

AnthColangelo Easy fix. Channel 9 transfer broadcast rights to Channel 10 and they film these tennis players in isolation as their series of I’m a celebrity get me out of here!

AnthColangelo Yep piss off and go back to where you came. I don’t care if you think your s**t doesn’t stink. Bye . Enjoy ya flight.

AnthColangelo Self entitled individuals who get a minimum of $100k if they get knocked out in the 1st round! No wonder they get no sympathy! Tell that to someone that lost their job during the pandemic. What a bunch of sooks who certainly are no endearing themselves to anyone....

AnthColangelo What did they think would happen? Did any ask the obvious , what a crock !

RichForrest2 AnthColangelo What DID they think? All about money while the world is in the grip of a Pandemic...could you be more precious

AnthColangelo They must live in rarefied air, everyone knows how quarantine works.

AnthColangelo Oh and did they have shit for brains too ?

AnthColangelo We lockdown the VIPs with Privilege and we jail the politicians for liars they are. These lockdowns are ruining everything.

AnthColangelo Fucking snowflakes, they are not special, just skilled in a boring elitist sport, I don’t give a flying fuck about them and the boring game they play

AnthColangelo I call bullshit. They knew what they signed up for.

AnthColangelo Too bad. We need to stand firm. The safety of our nation is at stake. Seriously, what did they expect?

AnthColangelo What the hell did they think would happen?! Get off the plane & walk the streets? Entitlement at its finest

AnthColangelo Boohoo.

AnthColangelo It is up to each individual person to ensure they have the most up to date information regarding COVID/restrictions/quarantine if they are travelling. No excuses/whinging...

AnthColangelo At least they were lucky enough to get into Victoria, poor Vic families were stuck at the border as refugees with nowhere to go thanks to knee jerk reactions from politicians putting $ ahead of their residents. ..Dictator Dan.

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AnthColangelo What does normanswan got to say about this?

AnthColangelo Australia do the same wrong jailing with anyone enter to the country. SkilledMigrants internationalstudents

AnthColangelo The organisers are idiots. Bringing a 100 tennis players from covid infected countries on planes that are likely to be infected is ridiculous. This will end in tears.

AnthColangelo Tell them to get back on get back on the plane, p*ss off and cancel the tournament. F*** up waiting to happen.

AnthColangelo AustralianOpen organisers seem to be the only ones who couldn’t see this was going to be a disaster. It should have been cancelled. We don’t want coronavirus imported into our country. Players should have the option to go home rather than spend time in hotelquarantine

AnthColangelo They live on a different planet, these ‘heros’ in sport.

AnthColangelo Players should’ve arrived here 2 weeks ago. In Covid times planning well in advance becomes essential. If cricketers can do it...

AnthColangelo Daniel Andrews people, that's the name you can ridicule at you next sports parties or guest speaker role.

AnthColangelo Hehehe

AnthColangelo Over-entitled brats. Surely they were aware of Australia's quarantine rules. If not why not? Have they been too self-centred to keep up with what's going on around the world? I noticed Ms Putintseva whinging about having a mouse in her room this morning. What a diva!

AnthColangelo Can always get back on plane & head home

AnthColangelo Have a sook! I love my tennis, but seriously it's a pandemic. The players are lucky to have a grand slam tournament. All the slams should've been moved to the back half of this year, given the out of control rate of covid in UK, US and France, seeing if vaccine has helped

AnthColangelo Send em all home now. Pick up Aussies when you get there. This tournament should never have gone ahead.

AnthColangelo This is starting to turn into an expose of why covid19 is out of control in so many other countries. Obvious and responsible quarantine measures are surprising to these people? Have they not encountered it before?

AnthColangelo Why didn't they arrive a couple of weeks earlier as they know the rules. It was all online. Sooks.

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AnthColangelo Wtf. How dare they

AnthColangelo This is probably the reason so many of their countrymen are dying from Covid-19. People like these sportspeople and others who support sport culture in general apparently think they are above restrictions. Unlikely they have strong restrictions at home.

AnthColangelo Oh well. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. What did they think was going to happen?

AnthColangelo Entitled idiots. Put them on a plane and fly em out again.

AnthColangelo Hard to empathise.......

AnthColangelo Then go home if you or your agents could not have forseen that occurring!

AnthColangelo Who cares! Again not in priority for us Australians.

AnthColangelo Send the whinging tennis players home

AnthColangelo There will be so much media screech, so much covidkaren screech that they are very likely to get the event cancelled. It’s just what they do.

AnthColangelo Who did?

AnthColangelo Organise a plane for those who don’t want to stay and send them home

They knew the deal. Suck it up.

AnthColangelo Easy. Their big issue is that they cannot train while in isolation. So make ALL the players isolate and they will all be in the same terrible physical condition and the competition will be fair...Simples...

AnthColangelo dee dums .. the spoilt brats .. tell them to ring Lifeline ..

AnthColangelo They weren't paying attention

AnthColangelo Expectations should've been made clear. This is poor communication

AnthColangelo What do they expect? Wimbledon was cancelled, every infection in Australia urrently is linked to returning overseas travellers or flight crew and this outcome wasn’t in their contingency plans? Siply should have been cancelled for this year

AnthColangelo So unfair.. to stay in quarantine for 14 days..

AnthColangelo These tennis players don't like quarantining like everybody else from overseas or interstate they can P1SS OFF AND GO BACK TO WHERE THEY CAME FROM! Aussies have toiled to keep this virus under control with great success! WHO WHE FCK DO THESE CORPORATE PUPPETS THINK THEY ARE!

AnthColangelo ... it is not their FAULT the are OUT but I kinda think given the circumstances it is ACE. They need to LET it go 😂🤣😂🤣

AnthColangelo It shouldn't be on. Should have been cancelled. Waste of planes.

AnthColangelo Well just send them all home to their COVID ravished countries, poor little babies 😳

AnthColangelo It’s on thing for the LNP to bull shite it’s own citizens but another to try it on the international stage. Me old China plate is a good example

AnthColangelo Isolate them for a mth, just for whinging about it. The “brat show” has arrived.

AnthColangelo Headline: overpaid, self entitled tennis players angered at 14 day self isolation which keeps entire population working..... and alive. And in other news 33000 Australians are still stuck overseas trying to return home happy for a 14 day self isolation period.

AnthColangelo Whaaaaa! I’ve travelled overseas during a global pandemic to earn shitloads of money and now I have to quarantine to keep the nation I’m visiting safe. I demand better treatment because I’m good at tennis!! I’m pissed because I made a bad choice. It all your fault.

AnthColangelo If they changed their surname to Kidman they’d get in without a problem.

AnthColangelo Omg what did they expect?

AnthColangelo Boo-hoo. Spoiled millionaires.

AnthColangelo May I suggest that the incredible idiot who allowed everyone to board flights without being tested pays for associated quarantine expenses.

AnthColangelo Boo hoo. Morons.

AnthColangelo Over entitled wealthy tennis players would presume they would get Hollywood treatment in mansions out of city like the rest have. What a Mess whoever had this idea with UK and USA so bad with virus?

AnthColangelo What a fluster cluck. Disgraceful

AnthColangelo Why are they surprised they have to quarantine?

AnthColangelo Unfortunately, whatever we think, they believe their anger is justified, many of them come from countries where there have NOT been strict lockdowns + quarantines, and this will permanently blacken Australia’s name in the tennis world - would’ve been better not to have this event

AnthColangelo We shouldn't be allowing ANYONE coming in from a country that ravaged with covid! This tournament should NEVER have been given the greenlight!

AnthColangelo Poor dears. They can always go home and perhaps quarantine there or catch the disease and take their chances. Are they adults or children?

AnthColangelo They should all be in hard lock down like everybody else coming into the country it’s only a sport FFS

AnthColangelo I'm enjoying some recreational schadenfreude

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AnthColangelo Dear god calm down. Affected tennis players are IN 14-day QUARANTINE. They knew the risks upfront. Of course people who tested negative for covid-19 before flights could test positive when arriving in Melbourne. 🙄 Logic Melbourne springst AustralianOpen Australia auspol

AnthColangelo Send the overprivileged wankers back where they came from.

AnthColangelo Send them home! Fancy making the CHOICE to travel half way around the world during a global pandemic thereby exposing yourself and the country you are visiting to the virus AND then complaining about it! Good riddance!

AnthColangelo These players come from countries riddled with Covid and when they are faced with the rules/ expectations of a country that has controlled it, they are shocked by what’s expected of them when in comes to managing it🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

AnthColangelo Why would there be exceptions? The rest of us have to do it. You're not above everyone else.

AnthColangelo Cry me a River ......

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