Tennis - Australian Open - Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia, February 8, 2021 Fans watch the first round match between Germany's Alexander Zverev and Marcos Giron of the U.S.. Crowd capacity for this years event has been capped at 30,000 per day following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) REUTERS/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Tennis fans wearing masks filtered into Melbourne Park on Monday for the start of the Australian Open, this year's first Grand Slam event, as the host city recorded one new locally transmitted case of the novel coronavirus.
Players and staff arriving from overseas have all served 14 days of quarantine but foreign fans have been kept out as part of Australia's tough and effective measures to get to grips with the coronavirus.
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