How are Australian Open players keeping themselves busy in quarantine?

Yulia Putintseva

Kazakhstan’s Putintseva has posted a couple of videos on social media of her experience so far – the first showing she has had some unwanted company, in the form of a mouse. The world number 28 wrote in an accompanying message: “Been trying to change the room for 2 hours already!”

The mouse is then nowhere to be seen in a subsequent video, in which Putintseva hits a ball against the hotel room wall. “Grand slam preparation” she writes, with a laughing face emoji on the end.

Lauren Davis

Davis is another player who has had an unwelcome visitor – a video on the American’s Instagram Story, with “quarantine day 1: trying to kill a spider” displayed across it, showed her throwing trainers at the ceiling – and then getting a racquet involved in the situation.

Johanna Konta

The British number one has been sharing her hotel room workouts on Twitter.

— Johanna Konta (@JohannaKonta) January 16, 2021

Heather Watson

Compatriot Watson has posted a video to her Twitter account showing her keeping active by running up and down her room.

Katie Boulter

Another Briton, Boulter, is seen in a more relaxed state in pictures posted on Twitter as she performs some yoga poses.

Pablo Cuevas

A video on the Uruguayan’s Instagram Story shows him hitting a ball with some vigour into a mattress leant against the wall, with the words “yes, I’m going crazy” displayed. That is followed by footage in which the mattress is back on the bed – and Cuevas is ‘surfing’ on it across the room.

Daria Kasatkina

As well as tennis, there is some impressive editing skills on display in a video Kasatkina has posted on social media showing her having a ‘rally’ with fellow Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, soundtracked by Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger.

Stan Wawrinka

The 2014 champion looked content with his meal in a post on Twitter that included the words “#happytobehere #grateful #readytowork”.