The Australian Open has decided to limit the capacity for the tournament that begins next Monday due to the massive rise in infections in Victoria.
Australia has experienced a high number of infections in the state of Victoria. That is why the Australian Open has decided to protect itself against the new wave of infections that hit the oceanic country. Only in the state of Victoria registered more than 30 thousand cases in the last 24 hours and in the face of this new wave the measure has been clear, to reduce the tournament’s capacity to a maximum of 50% of its total capacity.
The measures chosen
This measure will only be effective in the days where the sale of tickets has not yet exceeded 50%, and when that capacity is reached, tickets will stop selling. In addition, spectators must use the mask at all times, except to eat or drink inside the venue. It must be remembered that already in 2021 this measure was applied in some days. As a result, the Australian Open lost AU $ 100 million in all expenses. among which were included charter flights to players from all over the world.
Also in the last edition, a fourteen-day quarantine was imposed on all tennis players upon arrival at the tournament. There Surreal situations were experienced such as that of the Kazakh tennis player Yulia Putintseva when she found several mice in her hotel room where she was doing the pertinent quarantine. It seems that in 2022 things have improved a bit thanks to the appearance of vaccines against COVID, and that is that the Australian government imposed the complete mandatory guideline for the dispute of the tournament that will begin next Monday and that will be the first Grand Slam of the tennis calendar.
