Spanish tennis player\u00a0Paula Badosa\u00a0has described her time in hotel quarantine as the worst experience of her career, saying she felt \u201cabandoned\u201d by Australian Open organisers.<\/p>\n
Badosa, ranked 67th in the world, was the first player to test positive for coronavirus upon arriving in Australia ahead of the tournament and she has been in quarantine in Melbourne along with about 70 other players.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old said she had suffered from anxiety and claustrophobia, and has been using water bottles as weights to try to stay in shape.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel abandoned because I don\u2019t have training equipment which I requested five days ago,\u201d she told Spanish newspaper Marca on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t been told which type of the virus I have, I\u2019ve had no information from the tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n
Badosa added that the room, which she is sharing with coach Javier Marti, was not suitable for an elite athlete.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s far and away the worst experience of my career. The conditions here are lamentable, I wasn\u2019t expecting that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe number one thing people recommend when you have the virus is to open the windows to let in air, but I don\u2019t have windows in my hotel room and it\u2019s barely 15 square metres.\u201d<\/p>\n
Badosa is due to leave quarantine on January 31, but if if she is found to have the new strain of the virus then it will be February 5. The tournament is due to begin on February 8.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have lost a lot of my fitness levels, especially my strength,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I can come out on January 31 I\u2019ll have a week to get in shape. If it\u2019s February 5 it\u2019ll be impossible to recover in time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spanish tennis player\u00a0Paula Badosa\u00a0has described her time in hotel quarantine as the worst experience of her career, saying she felt \u201cabandoned\u201d by Australian Open organisers. Badosa, ranked 67th in the world, was the first player to test positive for coronavirus upon arriving in Australia ahead of the tournament and she has been in quarantine in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ball","category-breaking-news"],"views":31,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}