Owners of penthouse apartments situated above The Westin Melbourne are upset with an arrangement that increases their risk of contracting COVID-19 by being exposed to hundreds of international tennis players.
As tournaments in Abu Dhabi, Antalya and Delray Beach make final preparations to launch the 2021 tennis season next week, a new snag has emerged with the staging of the Australian Open.
In a collective story published by The Age (Melbourne) and Sydney Morning Herald, Tennis Australia now faces a potential legal dispute with the property they selected for player quarantining. The Westin Melbourne is not exclusively a hotel, for 36 penthouse apartments sit atop its structure. Needless to say, owners of those units are upset with an arrangement that increases their risk of contracting COVID-19 by being exposed to hundreds of international tennis players.
According to the report, the permanent residents were not notified of the agreement Tennis Australia struck with the Victorian Government until five days after it was signed.
“It’s incredibly arrogant to ambush us this way as if it’s a done deal,” said Mark Nicholson, who has owned his apartment for more than 15 years. “There are substantive public health and legal issues that have not even been examined.”
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