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Frenchman Benoit Paire shreds Australian Open organisers over ‘shameful’ lead-up – Wide World of Sports
Slams ‘s**t’ Australian Open
Frenchman Benoit Paire has unleashed a scathing attack at Australian Open organisers, slamming the event as “s**t” and branding Tennis Australia’s handling of the coronavirus-affected flights “shameful”.
The comments were made in the wake of Paire’s first-round Australian Open exit, in which the 29th rank fell to Belarus’ Egor Gerasimov 2-6, 6-2, 6-7, 5-7.
Paire was among the 72 players forced to complete a hard two-week hotel quarantine in Melbourne after three chartered flights were found to be…
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