Ash Barty’s coach has put Australia’s strict COVID-19 quarantine rules on blast after the world’s best female tennis player was reportedly denied a request to spend her two weeks’ isolation at home.
The Queenslander had spent six months on tour – winning her first Wimbledon title in the process – but opted to cut her season short to return home and prepare for the Australian Open in January.
But just to get back Down Under proved a headache for the world No.1 and her team.
“For travellers coming back, if you’re an Australian overseas, they don’t make it easy,” Tyzzer said.
“You can’t get flights, it’s ridiculously expensive and you’ve got to do two weeks’ quarantine in a hotel where you can’t open windows.
“You get tested basically the same amounts in the tournaments, both players and their teams. So we were up to 68 (COVID-19 tests) when Ash left for London and I left to come home to Australia.
“It’s part of what we had to put up with this year. It’s not much fun.
“You know at least everybody around you and in the tournaments are safe and COVID-free so it certainly enables you to operate.
“But to come back and do another couple of weeks (in quarantine) after two tests and finding out you’re negative, it’s a bit ridiculous.”
Barty withdrew from the Billie Jean King Cup in Prague and is unlikely to contest the WTA championship in Mexico, where she would be defending her title.
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