The development followed a threat of legal action from apartment owners at a luxury hotel in Melbourne
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The 39-year-old Swiss, who has won the tournament six times, is recovering from the knee injury that has kept him out of action since losing to Novak Djokovic in the semi-final at the 2020 event.
Tournament Director Craig Tiley also assured that the safety of players and their staff is top priority, vowing a “happy slam” amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Austrian third seed’s 7-5, 6-7 (10/12), 7-6 (7/5) win ended Djokovic’s hopes of equalling Roger Federer’s record of six titles at the elite eight-man event.
“I won’t play in Paris as I can’t add to my points tally but I will go to Vienna and London,” Djokovic said ahead of the event beginning November 2 to November 8.
The governing body of men’s tennis announced Murray, Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime, Australian John Millman and Frenchman Jeremy Chardy will replace Djokovic, John Isner, Vasek Pospisil and Sam Querrey, who stepped down to form the Professional Tennis Players Association.
With his record-improving 13th triumph at Roland Garros, world number two Nadal is now tied with Swiss Roger Federer as the player with the most men’s singles major titles.
Djokovic looked to be easing to a relatively-straightforward victory when he served for the match at 5-4 in the third set only for Tsitsipas to save a match point and turn the contest completely around
The win helped him to reach the quarter-finals for the 14th time.
The Serb could not have started the match in a more convincing fashion as he bagelled his 22-year-old opponent in front of a sparse crowd on Court Philippe Chatrier.
The top seed was in buoyant form as he secured a drama-free 6-0 6-2 6-3 victory over Mikael Ymer.
The world number one lifted a record 36th Masters crown, one more than great rival Rafael Nadal, after beating Diego Schwartzman 7-5, 6-3 in the final at the Foro Italico in Rome.
The world number one came through 7-5, 6-3 to advance to the final of the clay-court tournament he has won four times.
Djokovic, who has already been stripped of his $250,000 (£190,000) in prize money for reaching the last-16, was given a further punishment by tournament organisers for his actions on court against Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta.
Following the incident, the U. S. Tennis Association issued a statement saying that Djokovic would lose all the ranking points earned from the event.
This was after a point loss during the first set of his match against Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta.
Djokovic, along with Grigor Dimitrov, Borna Coric and Viktor Troicki, tested positive after playing in the Adria Tour, an exhibition tournament organised by the 17-time Grand Slam champion.
The Scot’s criticism has come after the Serbian and three other players tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
The 33-year-old Serbian, who has stated that he is an anti-vaxxer, said he did not have symptoms of the virus but that he had become the sixth direct participant in his exhibition series to catch the virus.
The head of the Zadar district crisis headquarters, Sime Vickovic, told state TV HRT that three of the 19 people initially tested were positive.