Melbourne Mayhem - An Emergency Podcast

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Positive covid cases, more than 70 players facing two weeks stuck inside without any practice, and mice in hotel rooms…it all calls for an emergency pod.

Catherine and David convene to discuss the situation in Melbourne. How has it all got out of control so quickly? What is Tennis Australia’s role now? How much sympathy do we feel for the players in all of this? And does it change who should be considered the Australian Open favourite?

We also speak to Pam Shriver about how she thinks she would have found the strict quarantine, how she might have tried to keep sharp and fit in that situation, how it might affect the men and women differently, what measures or format changes could be implemented by the tournament, and the inequality of the separate quarantine in Adelaide for top players.

The Tennis Podcast is presented by Catherine Whitaker and David Law, and features Matt Roberts. It is produced weekly year-round, and daily during the Grand Slam tournaments.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Mary Ann Bartoli. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm like Newt. I'm Andy Murray.
0:06.7	This is Janik Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:20.7	Well hello folks and welcome along to an impromptu and unplanned
0:25.6	emergency tennis podcast. It is Sunday the 17th of January and it has taken a 17
0:34.0	days to produce our first emergency podcast of 2020, 2021, of when is it now? 2021
0:42.1	David, all your dreams have come true. tennis has conspired to create an
0:46.5	emergency podcast situation. Yeah, no tennis and still lots of
0:50.8	opportunity to talk about tennis on the podcast, which is magnificent. And this
0:54.6	is going to be our sort of week off because we've already done the work. And now we are.
0:59.4	We are on the eve of Billie Jean King week folks and emergency podcast doesn't interfere
1:04.5	with that at all Billie Jean King week still going ahead as planned from tomorrow,
1:09.5	from Monday, depending on when you're listening to this. And it's going to be fab. But before
1:14.0	then we need to talk about not so fab things, a slightly nightmarish scenario emerging
1:22.6	and has already emerged for for tennis Australia, for for Australia in general, for the Australian
1:32.3	open for tennis players for the tennis world, which is that over the course of the last
1:39.1	few days when the charter flights have been incoming to Melbourne and Adelaide ahead of
1:45.4	the Australian open and the lead up period, a total now of 72 players and additionally
1:52.6	their support teams, which is 20% of the field across men's and women's are now confined
1:59.4	to strict quarantine because passengers from their charter flights have tested positive
2:07.7	for COVID-19 upon arrival in Melbourne. These are so far from three different flights out
2:14.6	of 18 we understand charter flights one from LA, which notably carried canisia quarry,
2:22.9	Victoria as a rancorant and Sloan Stevens, one from Doha, which mostly seemed to have
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