Angelique Kerber suggests quarantine lockdown was behind Australian Open upset loss

Former women’s world number one Angelique Kerber says she may have thought twice about coming to Melbourne for the Australian Open had she known there was the possibility of spending two weeks in hard quarantine.

Kerber, the 2016 Australian Open champion, was one of the 72 players who were forced to enter a hard hotel lockdown in Melbourne last month after passengers on the charter flights that carried them to Australia tested positive for coronavirus.

The move angered several players, including Spain’s…