Beyond Australia there is also life. The ATP established a calendar for the next few months, receiving the OK from the competent authorities, and the tournaments have already started to work to safeguard their viability. It is the case of Córdoba Open, the first event of a South American clay court tour that this season will consist of three tournaments (Córdoba, Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile) in which the Cordovan event will become its starting signal.
The director of the Argentine tournament, Mariano Ink, confirmed to the press that the 2021 edition of the Córdoba Open will be held no audience, as collected by our fellow BATennis. The current situation of the coronavirus pandemic does not understand areas, countries or borders, and the arrival of tennis in South America will occur with all kinds of restrictions and protocols that ensure an event free of positives. Thus, another of the novelties that Mariano confirmed will be the creation of a bubble similar to tournaments like the Us Open or the Australian Open.
That is to say: players will only be able to move from the club to the hotel and from the hotel to the club, a story to which they will surely be fully accustomed, since many of them will live the strict 14-day quarantine of the Australian Open. Additionally, tennis players will need a previous negative test to be able to enter Argentina, in addition to giving negative in the first controls of the tournament to enter the bubble.
And what about the protagonists? Many of the fans will be eager to know who heads the player list. The complete list has not yet been released (it will be known on January 25), but Ink confirmed the presence of the three main Argentine rackets. Diego Schwartzman, Guido Pella and Juan Ignacio Londero have said yes to the Albiceleste tournament, immediately becoming their main attractions. In a chat with BATennis, Ink also confirmed the presence of a Spanish player on the main list, although he did not reveal his name, and announced that they will bet on young people when it comes to distributing the wildcards.
Thus, the Argentine tournament will be added to the large number of events that have had to be played at door closed. It remains to be seen that the tournaments that follow will make the same decision: we just have to wait.
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