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The three people are not players and initially tested positive for the virus shortly after arriving in Australia last week. All three have been in strict quarantine since their arrival. "The residents arrived in Melbourne on a dedicated Australian Open charter flight on 15 January and returned their first positive tests on 15, 17 and 18 January," a spokesperson for Covid-19 Quarantine Victoria said on Saturday, reports Xinhua news agency.

Murray had been granted a wildcard to play in the tournament's main draw but he tested positive for Covid-19 last week shortly before he was due to fly to Melbourne. The 33-year-old was asymptomatic, and still, had hoped to participate in 2021's first grand slam. However, he was unable to agree upon a "workable quarantine" after talks with Tennis Australia.

Meanwhile, both top seeds in the boys and girls categories lost in the AITA TS 7 tennis tournament hosted by Fortune Sports Academy. While Sriniketh Kannan lost to Sehej Singh in the Boys U-14 section, Vanya Srivastav was beaten by Sushmita Ravi on the Girls U-14 category.

Satwiksairaj and Ashwini defeated their German opponents 22-20, 14-21, 21-16 in a match that lasted for 56 minutes. In the first game, the Indians banked on their powerful strokes from the backcourt and eventually went on to seal it with a scoreline of 22-20.

In fact, the doctors did have reasons to say so. Jones was born with ectrodactyly ectodermal dysplasia syndrome, which means that she has four fingers on each hand, and seven toes on her feet. But Jones was determined. At 10, she was accepted to the Sanchez-Casal Academy in Barcelona. The difficulties she needs to overcome might sound unimaginable to other tennis players.

Murray, 33, planned to take a chartered flight to Melbourne this week as the five-time Australian Open runner-up received a wildcard for this year's tournament, according to BBC Sport. He is now in quarantine and isolating at home in London.

The ITTF executive committee met on Monday with representatives from the continents to cancel the championships, originally scheduled to take place in March in Busan, the South Korean southeast port city. The competition was already postponed three times this year in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The daily number of infections here have hovered around 1,000 in recent days, raising the total cases to 51,460 as of midnight Tuesday.

The 33-year-old had not played since withdrawing from the tournament in Cologne, Germany, this October due to a pelvic problem. Playing his opening match in event, the former world number one on Sunday showed great form as he defeated current British number one Evans 7-6 (7-5), 6-4.

Australian Open was earlier scheduled to start from January 18, however the schedule has been updated because of the Covid-19 restrictions. The ATP release said men's qualifying for the Australian Open would take place in Doha from January 10-13 before players relocated to Melbourne to enter 14-day quarantine.

Currently India's No. 1 in both women's singles (since 2013) and doubles (since 2019), Raina was one of the stars who helped India advance to one of the two Fed Cup spots on offer when the competition was held at the Dubai Tennis Stadium in the first week of March this year.