The tennis season has begun with tournaments held in the southern hemisphere. Australia hosts a series of tournaments leading up to the main course, the Australian Openwhich starts on the 12th in Melbourne. Tennis players have been taking advantage of the last few weeks to acclimatize to conditions of high temperatures and humidity to get in top shape for the first Grand Slam of the year.
One of these tournaments is Hobart Internationalwhich will feature Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska as the head seed in singles, and the pair formed by the Slovakian Tereza Mihalikova and the British Olivia Nicholls, as favorites for the doubles title.
However, Nicholls reported on his X account a setback upon his arrival in Australia. The British, currently in 39th place in the doubles ranking, showed his anger at the Australian airline. Jetstar Airways when his bag and rackets were damaged.
“This is unacceptable Jetstar Airways. 160 Australian dollars (96 euros) to check in because they don’t allow me to take the bag as hand luggage, and they give it to me like that? How is this possible? My bag and my rackets were completely destroyed,” the tennis player wrote on X. Nicholls She is scheduled to debut next Sunday, against the couple formed by Kimberley Zimmermann and the American Quinn Gleason.
Source: La Verdad
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