The 2021 Australian Open will be pushed back three weeks due to COVID-19 precautions, with the first Grand Slam event of the calendar year now set to be contested in February.
An updated ATP Tour calendar has the Melbourne event now starting Feb. 8 as a part of a revision to the first seven weeks of the schedule.
Men’s qualifying for the event now will take place Jan. 10-13 at Doha, Qatar. Players then would have three and a half weeks to travel to Australia and quarantine for two weeks before participating in the tournament.
Two warm-up tournaments for non-qualifiers will take place concurrently at Melbourne during the last week of January.
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