The Australian Open continues without spectators

Due to the coronavirus epidemic, the Australian Open will continue in Melbourne without spectators for the next five days.

The rigorous decision was needed because the state of Victoria was shut down from midnight on Friday as a pandemic virus variant from Britain infected 13 people in Melbourne.

Tournament director Craig Tiley has confirmed that spectators can still enter the matches left from Friday's program, but the Grand Slam tournament will continue behind closed doors for Saturday - for the time being for five days and players will be bubbling from Saturday morning, as in almost every tournament in recent months.

“The last five days have been a unique experience for them, and in the next five days they will return to what they already know,” Tiley explained.

Melbourne had a 112-day, strict closure last year that reduced the number of 700 cases a day to zero.

The first Grand Slam of the year began three weeks later than planned, and players and members of professional staff and background staff - more than a thousand participants and contributors - had to quarantine for two weeks.

Up to 30,000 spectators a day were admitted to Melbourne Park - about half the usual attendance - but there were only 21,000 on Thursday.

(Source: Source: sportrajongo.hu, mti / Photo: pixabay)

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