The stars of the Australian Open play “quarantine tennis” in the hotel rooms

Some of the world’s biggest tennis stars are finding ways to keep the game in shape before the Australian Open, although many of them are quarantined in their hotel rooms after a Covid bud in front of the big shawl.

While a handful of tennis professionals, including Novak Djokovic, Serena Williams, Naomi Osaka and Rafael Nadal, enjoy less stringent restrictions, most players hoping to compete in the tournament have been confined to four walls, with many of them at the Grand Hyatt in Melbourne.

Those players in strict isolation (72 in the last count) have been sharing their inventive approach to staying fit without accessing the usual gyms and training tracks, including breaking balls on mattresses and curtains and creating small running tracks in their rooms.

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American star Coco Gauff hits balls against curtains and pillows while trying to practice at the Australian Open; 72 players have been put in strict quarantine before the Melbourne tournament

Squat seats: using hotel furniture! British tennis star Heather Watson holds the leather chair while throwing in her hotel room

The former British No. 1 got a 5K run … walking repeatedly from one end of his hotel room to the other

Table for one, sir? Stan Wawrinka has breakfast alone in his hotel suite after a Covid outbreak in Melbourne forced him to isolate many players competing in the Australian Open

Uruguayan player Pablo Cuevas is seen hitting his back against an upside-down mattress to try to get ready for the Grand Slam while trapped in his bedroom

While British tennis star Heather Watson managed to run 5K back and forth in her room, American tennis star Coco Gauff hit the curtains with tennis balls and Anastasia Potapova practiced her flying against the windows in short distance.

In a video shared on Twitter, Uruguayan player Pablo Cuevas is seen pulling back against an upside-down mattress to try to get ready for the grand slam later this week.

Meanwhile, Swiss tennis player Belinda Bencic shared a shocking video of herself in the window of her upstairs room, with Melbourne skyscrapers clearly visible in the background.

For some, including reigning Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic, 33, the isolation allowed is a bit more relaxed.

The most important names in the game were allowed to fly to Adelaide and enjoy better facilities, such as hotel rooms with balconies, unlike most quarantined in Melbourne.

Russian rising star of the track, Yulia Putinseva, used a closet at Melbourne’s Grand Hyatt, where many of the sports stars shoot to shoot

The pillow becomes the goal of Tunisian player Ons Jabeur, as his coach gives him balls to hit

Marcelo Arévalo González (pictured) was playing volleyball with the mattress while it was closed

Belinda Bencic finds a way to train while in compulsory quarantine at the hotel before the tournament

This week, Djokovic wrote a letter to the head of Tennis Australia, Craig Tiley, asking him to organize training time for the 72 players who have been confined to hotel rooms after cases were detected in their you want charter.

According to Australia’s strict border measures on coronavirus, this means it is considered a “close contact” of an infected person and must be quarantined for two weeks.

Others can train up to five hours a day in strictly controlled conditions. A number of warm-up events will be held after the quarantine period, before the Australian Open begins on 8 February.

Djokovic also suggested that players could be quarantined in private homes in Melbourne with tennis courts and a gym. Those players who are not confined to their rooms can train for up to five hours a day in strictly controlled conditions.