Effects of COVID-19 on Tennis Tournaments
The coronavirus pandemic has also affected the world of sports and tennis. In many countries, sports competitions have been canceled or postponed. While the rapid increase in the number of cases in Australia under the influence of the Delta and Omicron variants of the new type of coronavirus (Covid-19) continues, audience interest in the Australian Open Tennis Tournament has fallen to the lowest level compared to previous years.
During this period, some famous tennis players who were not vaccinated and had a vaccination card could not participate in the tournaments. Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic traveled to this nation to take part within the Australian Open Tennis Competition, which is on January 16. The famous tennis player was deported from the country last January on the grounds that he did not have a Covid-19 vaccine and could not participate in the tournament. The Australian government announced that it had decided to reinstate Djokovic’s visa after considering all the factors related to the suspension, and had granted the Serbian tennis player a visa so that he could travel to the Grand Slam event in November.
It seems that the number of spectators on the courts in Melbourne, Australia, where hundreds of women’s singles and men’s singles tennis players have been fighting for about a week to enter the main table, is almost negligible. In Australia, where the daily number of COVID-19 cases is over 100 thousand, instead of the number of spectators reaching record highs even in the qualifying rounds every year, there is silence both on the courts and in the facilities where the tournament is held this year.
Instead of the tens of thousands of spectators who attended events with their families both on the courts and in outdoor areas in the years before Covid-19, there are now players, coaches, referees, ball collectors, press members, security guards and other employees. 3 Days some time recently the begin of the most draw matches at the primary terrific hammer competition of the season, the Australian Open, the Victorian State Government reported recently that as it were half of the tickets will be sold beneath Covid-19 measures.
The state government, which did not disclose how many tickets had already been sold, but pointed out that sales were below 50 percent, formalized that the main table matches would also be held with unusually few spectators. According to data from the last 24 hours in Australia, 130 thousand 35 more people were diagnosed with COVID-19, while 56 people died from the virus.
Covid-19 & Tennis
The following tennis competitions were canceled during Covid-19:
The Wimbledon Tennis Tournament has been cancelled in England. July June 28-December11, the scheduled tournament has been canceled for the first time since the Second World War.
September October 20th-October 4th French Open has been postponed to the dates.
The Budapest Fed Cup tennis finals have also been postponed.
