Australian Open: Mouse in hotel room adds to Yulia Putintseva’s Melbourne quarantine woes | Tennis News – Times of India

MELBOURNE: If going into strict quarantine forward of subsequent month’s Australian Open was not tough sufficient, Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva has to cope with an undesirable roommate in the shape of a mouse.
Putintseva is amongst 47 gamers and their entourages who’ve been requested to isolate for 2 weeks in their hotel rooms after COVID-19 circumstances had been reported on the 2 chartered flights that carried them to Melbourne.
The world quantity 28 who arrived on the flight from Abu Dhabi was already upset after claiming she was not instructed that every one the gamers aboard the airplane could be quarantined in case an an infection was detected.
The situation of Putintseva’s room in Melbourne has not helped calm the scenario.
“Been trying to change the room for two hours already! No one came to help due to quarantine situation,” Putintseva stated in a put up on Twitter that was accompanied by a video of the mouse scurrying about her room.

The video prompted British tennis participant Andy Murray’s mom Judy to joke Putintseva wanted a cat to clear up the issue.
Some social media customers have hit out at gamers complaining about having to strictly keep in lodges, prompting Swiss world quantity 12 Belinda Bencic to clear the air.
“We’re not complaining to be in quarantine. We’re complaining because of unequal practice/playing conditions before quite important tournaments,” she tweeted.
Romanian Sorana Cirstea added: “People complaining we are entitled. I have no issues to stay 14 days in the room watching Netflix. Believe me this is a dream come true, holiday even.
“What we won’t do is COMPETE after we have stayed 14 days on a sofa. This is the difficulty, not the quarantine rule.”
Other players who arrived in different planes are also undertaking a mandatory 14-day quarantine but are permitted to leave their hotels for five hours a day to train, raising questions about the integrity of the Grand Slam.

Australia is set to welcome about 1,200 players, officials and staff on 15 flights for the Grand Slam beginning on Feb. 8.