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Camila Giorgi, Ekaterina Alexandrova comment on mandatory Australian Open vaccination

It is likely that all tennis players who wish to participate in the 2022 Australian Open will have to be vaccinated against COVID-19, in order to be able to enter the country. Italy’s Camila Giorgi and Russia’s Ekaterina Alexandrova have recently commented on how they feel about this requirement.

Vaccination rate among WTA players is about 60 percent, five percent inferior to the ATP’s level. Therefore, almost half of all professional tennis players are yet to be fully vaccinated and the Australian Open is just around the corner.

Even though she got vaccinated right after the Olympic Games, world No.