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  Roger Federer targets tournament comeback in Qatar next month

  February 02, 2021 23:24 IST

  The 20-time Grand Slam champion said he preferred a smaller tournament where he “wouldn’t be in the spotlight too much and the stress is also a little less.”

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  Sumit Nagal's gut feeling says he will play top-10 player at Australian Open

  February 02, 2021 17:16 IST

  Nagal has been awarded a wild card entry into the hard court major and he will come to know about his opponent when the draw is announced on Thursday.

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  ATP Cup: Rafael Nadal withdraws from Tuesday's game against Team Australia

  February 02, 2021 13:06 IST

  The World No. 2 opts out of the first match of the ATP Cup in Melbourne due to a stiff lower back.

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  Watch: Novak Djokovic kicks off new season with win over Shapovalov at ATP Cup

  February 02, 2021 10:26 IST

  The World No. 1 Serb defeated Denis Shapovalov in the group stages of ATP Cup 7-5, 7-5, in Melbourne.

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  Sumit Nagal begins 2021 season with defeat

  February 01, 2021 15:27 IST

  Nagal, who does not give up easily, suffered a rather tame 2-6 2-6 defeat in the USD 320775 ATP250 event.

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  Serena Williams secures easy win in first round of Australian Open tuneup tournament

  February 01, 2021 14:01 IST

  Williams has been stalled on 23 major singles titles since the 2017 Australian Open, when she was two months’ pregnant with now-three-year-old daughter Olympia.

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  Coco Gauff through in 3 tough sets in Australian Open tuneup

  February 01, 2021 13:22 IST

  The American teenager defeated Jil Teichmann 6-3, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (5) at the WTA’s Gippsland Trophy.

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  Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova advances to second round in Australian Open's tuneup event

  February 01, 2021 11:08 IST

  The 11th-seeded Pavlyuchenkova has been a quarterfinalist in three of the last four years at the Australian Open.

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  Australian Open: Big week as tune-up tournaments to Grand Slam set to start

  January 30, 2021 9:16 IST

  More than 1,000 players and officials went into a two-week quarantine from Jan. 14 when the first of 17 flights chartered by Tennis Australia landed in Melbourne and Adelaide.

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  Serena Williams visits zoo with daughter before win; Novak Djokovic on court in Australia

  January 29, 2021 13:12 IST

  Williams said she'd been crossing off the 14 days of quarantine on a calendar, having spent the time with her three-year-old daughter Olympia.

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  Andy Murray enters challenger event in Italy after withdrawing from Australian Open

  January 27, 2021 20:39 IST

  Murray is listed to play an indoor tournament in Biella starting Feb. 15, the Italian Tennis Federation said Wednesday.

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  Trapped in Australian Open 'hard quarantine', Rohan Bopanna waiting for 'freedom day'

  January 27, 2021 16:12 IST

  Bopanna was on one of the three flights out of a total of 17 Tennis Australia-arranged chartered planes, that landed in Melbourne with positive cases on board.

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  Rafael Nadal supports Australian Open Covid-19 measures

  January 27, 2021 11:27 IST

  All players arriving in Australia were required to undergo two weeks' quarantine along with their support staff. 

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  Andy Murray pulls out of Australian Open, says he's 'gutted'

  January 22, 2021 22:37 IST

  The announcement comes a little more than a week after Murray said he tested positive for COVID-19 shortly before he was due to board a charter flight to Melbourne.

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  Australian Open: Spain tennis player tests positive for COVID-19

  January 22, 2021 11:01 IST

  Paula Badosa, a 23-year-old who reached the fourth round at last year's French Open, wrote Thursday on Twitter that she received her test result for COVID-19.

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  Three more COVID-19 cases linked to Australian Open arrivals

  January 19, 2021 9:20 IST

  More than 1,200 players, coaches, staff, officials and media have arrived on 17 charter flights since last Thursday to prepare for the Australian Open, which starts Feb. 8.

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  Davis Cup Finals up to 11 days in 2021, could be in 3 cities

  January 18, 2021 18:49 IST

  The ITF announced Monday that the international men’s tennis team event will run from Nov. 25 to Dec. 5, with 18 countries participating in six groups of three.

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  Australian Open: Tennis players getting on with life in Melbourne

  January 18, 2021 17:27 IST

  2016 champion Angelique Kerber, who is among the 72 players doing hard quarantine for 14 days, spent her birthday in quarantine on Monday. 

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  Players complain of food quality in Australian Open quarantine

  January 17, 2021 23:07 IST

  As many as 47 players were earlier sent into hard quarantine after four coronavirus cases were detected on two charter flights that was transporting them to the country along with coaches and officials.

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  Australian Open: 72 players now in quarantine after positive coronavirus test in third flight

  January 17, 2021 19:41 IST

  The positive test came from a passenger who was not a member of the playing contingent, Australian Open organizers said.

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  You're wrong: Brit player tells doctors after battling rare disease, qualifying for Australian Open

  January 17, 2021 17:09 IST

  When Francesca Jones was young, she was told by doctors that she could not play tennis.

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  Australian Open: Grand Slam champions among 47 players in lockdown after 4 positive COVID-19 cases

  January 17, 2021 16:04 IST

  Some players were angry at being classified as close contacts merely for being on board those flights with people who later tested positive and, therefore, forced into a harsher quarantine than the broader group of players

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  Australian Open: 3 COVID-19 positive cases detected; 47 players forced into strict quarantine

  January 17, 2021 6:19 IST

  Health authorities said two positive COVID-19 cases emerged from a charter flight from Los Angeles. The third positive test was from a flight from Abu Dhabi in the past 24 hours.

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  Australian Open arrivals hit by 2 COVID-19 positive tests

  January 16, 2021 16:02 IST

  But the positive tests will force all passengers from that flight into a strictly-enforced 14-day hotel quarantine without the ability to leave their hotel rooms — and for the players not to be able to practice.

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  Players arrive for Australian Open; straight into quarantine

  January 15, 2021 14:12 IST

  The first of about 1,200 players, coaches, entourage and officials were met by airport staff and biosecurity officials wearing personal protective equipment including masks and face shields, before being taken to hotel quarantine.

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  Andy Murray's status for Australian Open in doubt after positive COVID-19 test

  January 14, 2021 20:52 IST

  The three-time Grand Slam champion is isolating at home near London, the tournament said in a statement.

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  Australian Open: Tennys Sandgren gets OK to fly to Melbourne despite COVID-19 result

  January 14, 2021 12:22 IST

  The two-time Australian Open quarterfinalist was given a special clearance to board one of the flights from Los Angeles to Melbourne despite testing positive to COVID-19 in November and again on Monday.

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  Ankita Raina falls short again, loses final round of Australian Open Qualifiers

  January 13, 2021 16:32 IST

  It was the Indian's sixth attempt to qualify for a competition at the grand stage.