A quarantine worker at one of the hotels directly linked to the Australian Open had also tested positive, forcing the cancellation of a day's play at lead-in events.
Raina achieved the feat after she made the cut for the women's doubles event of the Australian Open.
Akhtar, father of India's current Davis Cup coach Zeeshan Ali, was 83 and breathed his last in Kolkata.
Top-ranked Barty cashed in on her first championship point against Garbine Muguruza in the Yarra Valley Classic, while Daniil Medvedev clinched the ATP Cup title for Russia.
Russia will meet Italy in the final after Fabio Fognini beat Pablo Carreno 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 and Matteo Berrettini swept Roberto Bautista 6-3, 7-5 to account for 2020 runner-up Spain.
Australian tennis player Ashleigh Barty, who has been a former cricketer, took to Twitter to share a video of her bowling with a tennis racquet.
No. 3-ranked Osaka pulled out of her Gippsland Trophy semifinal against Elise Mertens, citing a “niggling injury."
Ankita Raina, who was waiting to know if she gets 'lucky loser' spot in the women's singles, could not make the cut.
Serena Williams withdrew from an Australian Open tuneup tournament citing a right shoulder injury.
First up for the seven-time Australian Open champion will be Laura Siegemund of Germany.
The 23-time Grand Slam champion needed a match tiebreaker to beat fellow American Danielle Collins 6-2, 4-6, 10-6.
To speed things up a little, 17 courts were being used and women's matches were reduced to two regular sets with a 10-point match tiebreaker if required.
Anyone who quarantined at the Grand Hyatt hotel was deemed to be casual contacts of the 26-year-old infected quarantine worker, which suspended play in all tune-up tournaments for Australian Open on Thursday.
Anyone connected with the tournament and who quarantined at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Melbourne were deemed to be casual contacts of the 26-year-old infected man and were undergoing testing at a dedicated facility.
Players preparing for the year's first Grand Slam tournament, which is supposed to begin Monday, must isolate at their hotels until they test negative for the illness caused by the coronavirus.
Daniel Andrews, the political leader of Victoria state, called a late-night news conference Wednesday to announce the case and urged anyone with symptoms in Melbourne to get tested.
Now that she's at Melbourne Park, though, she's making the most of her time in the Yarra Valley Classic to prepare for next week's Australian Open.
In a Grand Slam first, there will be no on-court line judges on any of the tournament courts in an effort to reduce the number of staff on-site during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Berrettini has dominated at Melbourne Park, defeating two of the top 11 players -- Dominic Thiem and Monfils -- to lead his country out of Group C.
Osaka defeated Great Britain's Katie Boulter 3-6, 6-3, 6-1; Svitolina surpassed Jelena Ostapenko, 6-7(4), 6-3, 6-2
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