Inside the ‘brutal experience’ of Australian quarantine, with John Millman
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus edition of the pod, John Millman speaks to David and Catherine from his hotel room in Sydney where he’s quarantining for 14 days following the end of the season and his return to Australia.
John talks candidly about his experience of travelling the ATP Tour throughout the pandemic, the mental toll of being in quarantine without even being allowed to open a window, his role on the ATP player council, his views on the PTPA, and the possible scenarios for next year’s Australian Open, including a delayed start time and negotiations to allow players to train in a bio-secure bubble while they undertake two weeks of quarantine.
At the end of the pod, Catherine, David and Matt react to what Millman has said as well as Andy Murray’s recent comments about his optimism for the future.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Maen Bartoli. I'm Matt Belander. This is Mary Carrillo. I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm Lainey Neut. I'm Andy Murray. |
| 0:06.7 | This is Janik Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.6 | Well the ATP finals is over. |
| 0:22.9 | Catherine Whittaker is free of fake hair and fake iron ashes and wearing normal clothes. |
| 0:29.3 | Catherine, how you doing? I'm alright. That's a very polite way of saying I look rough again. |
| 0:36.1 | No natural. Normal. Back at home. No longer in front of a TV camera, presenting for Amazon Prime |
| 0:42.2 | Video. But it was a brilliant week. We're now back talking about tennis of the future and |
| 0:49.8 | specifically looking ahead to the Australian Open. No matter the moment, however, we are joined by |
| 0:55.6 | a special guest. We've got John Milman with us. Hello, John. |
| 0:59.2 | Hi, thanks for having me. It's good to tune in from down under here in Australia. |
| 1:05.6 | Yeah, well, I mean, it's more important than ever really to speak to you and we |
| 1:09.4 | expect you earlier in the year. But you are, I don't know how to say this, but you're kind of |
| 1:14.2 | our guinea pig for what happens when somebody goes to Australia because you are not at home. |
| 1:21.4 | Where are you right now? No, so my last tournaut was in Sofia in Bulgaria and I did the |
| 1:28.8 | journey home to Australia. I couldn't get a flight into Brisbane, which is where I'm from. So |
| 1:34.4 | I am currently in Sydney doing my 14-day government mandate, a government mandated hotel quarantine. |
| 1:41.8 | So it was quite an experience. You got picked up from the airport by the army actually and you got |
| 1:48.2 | carted off in buses, four different buses went to four different locations and my location ended |
| 1:54.3 | up at the at the Soffitel here in the Sydney CBD. So day 10 of 14, it hasn't been a pleasant |
| 2:02.3 | experience and one that's probably not conducive to playing tennis straight away after I would say. |
| 2:11.0 | So I know that tennis Australia and the Australian Open team have got a lot on their plate |
| 2:15.9 | with the current conditions. You say it's not been a great experience. I mean, how are you feeling |
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