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Three individuals, including 2019 US Open champion Bianca Andreescu’s coach Sylvain Bruneau, tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving in Melbourne on flights from Los Angeles and Abu Dhabi. That luxury however, will not be granted to the 63 players who were on board the three planes that had an individual (no players) test positive. Amidst the complaints that players were uninformed and are being treated unfairly, New Zealand’s doubles specialist Artem Sitak posted a video to put matters “into perspective.” “We had a call with Tennis Australia about a month ago, and not a lot of players were on that call, which was surprising to me,” said the doubles World No.78, who was on board the flight from Los Angeles that had two positive cases.“Tennis Australia and the organisers told us the risks that we were going to be undertaking and they did mention that if somebody tests positive on the flight it will be up to the health authorities to decide whether they want to quarantine the whole flight or isolate compartments of the plane.”