Por finally the confirmations of the flight schedules and the National Navy have arrived –nine men and four women qualified for the singles draw at the Australian Open– depart between today and tomorrow to Melbourne and Adelaide.
Connections are from three different airports, Doha, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Players, before boarding, will have had to fill out a cumbersome questionnaire related to the pandemic. There are two Spaniards who already They have passed the coronavirus and will dispute the tour of the antipodes: Marcel Granollers and Roberto Carballs.
The third to overcome COVID-19 is Fernando Verdasco, absent in Australian lands due to his recent knee operation. By the end of December, the professionals had to have already informed the training partners during the two weeks of mandatory quarantine.
All have done it except for Feliciano Lpez, who did not know until the last minute if he could play and increase his record of appearances in Grand Slam tournaments (75) by having released paternity.
Aliona Bolsava has entered after some casualties. The two will be assigned there tennis players to train. Rafael Nadal, who will have his bubble in Adelaide by being one of the top three seeds, takes his friend Marc Lpez with him.
The 38-year-old doubles player, after a season in which he served as Feli’s coach, will once again compete in doubles at the Australian Open alongside Pablo Carreo. The Asturian training during his first week in Melbourne with Joao Sousa and then join the do formed by Nikoloz Basilashvili and Jan-Lennard Struff.
In the case of Roberto Bautista to be Daniil Medvedev your initial session partner. Then they will enter your circle Felix Auger-Aliassime and Matteo Berrettini. Albert Ramos start next to Guido Pella and then share a track with him also Argentine Juan Ignacio Londero and with Pablo Cuevas.
As for Alejandro Davidovich, one of the revelations of the circuit last season, making contact with the Greenset of Melbourne Park with the Italian Salvatore Caruso. Then another transalpine player, Lorenzo Sonego, and the Serbian Dusan Lajovic will join.
In the case of Pablo Andjar, the only top 100 in the Navy who competed the first week of 2021 in Delray Beach, he will train with Federico Coria and then he will do it surrounded by Thiago Monteiro and Federico Delbonis.
The Spaniards Pedro Martnez and Roberto Carballs will practice together upon their arrival in the capital of Victoria. They will be joined by Laslo Djere and Yuichi Sugita. In the pictures, Garbie Muguruza exchange blows with Alison Riske and later with Marie Bouzkova and Sara Sorribes.
Paula Badosa, a brand-new eighth-finalist from Abu Dhabi, has surrounded herself with a super block. To start Marta Kostyuk and later, Bianca Andreescu and Elena Rybakina.
Rafael Nadal-Marc Lpez
Roberto Bautista with Daniil Medvedev, Felix Auger-Aliassime, Matteo Berrettini
Pablo Carreo with Joao Sousa, Nikoloz Basilashvili, Jan-Lennard Struff
Albert Ramos with Guido Pella, Juan Ignacio Londero, Pablo Cuevas
Alejandro Davidovich with Salvatore Caruso, Lorenzo Sonego, Dusan Lajovic
Pablo Andjar with Federico Coria, Thiago Monteiro, Federico Delbonis
Feliciano Lpez with designated by the organization
Pedro Martnez with Roberto Carballs, Laslo Djere, Yuichi Sugita
Roberto Carballs with Pedro Martnez, Laslo Djere, Yuichi Sugita
Garbie Muguruza with Alison Riske, Marie Bouzkova, Sara Sorribes
Paula Badosa with Marta Kostyuk, Elena Rybakina, Bianca Andreescu
Sara Sorribes with Marie Bouzkova, Garbie Muguruza, Alison Riske
Aliona Bolsava with designated by the organization
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