Australian Open plan faces legal challenge

The Australian Open quarantine plan faces a legal challenge from a luxury Melbourne Hotel.

A turn in the events leading up to the impending Australian Open could be a legal challenge by the owners of a luxury Melbourne Hotel which was designated by the organizers as a place where players would quarantine ahead of the event. The reason is safety as the hotel owners never agreed to host so many international players during the pandemic.

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The lawyer representing the Hotel said:

“My instructions are to get an injunction. So at this stage, that’s where we’re going. No-one has told us that this has been mandated by a government authority to turn a partly residential city hotel into a quarantined hotel."

So far Tennis Australia has no responded to the newspaper request and the situation might get complicated as the owners believe they have grounds for a lawsuit. If it goes ahead it might be a small hitch in the Australian Open plan but it's unlikely it will derail the event from going ahead. We will have more as the situation unfolds.