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Bizarre story behind tennis star's 'prison with Wi-Fi' Aus Open rant emerges
World number 13 Roberto Bautista Agut became the latest tennis player to attract the ire of Australia, after a video emerged of the Spaniard describing hotel quarantine conditions in Australia to ‘jail… with Wi-Fi’.
‘These people have no idea about tennis, about practice courts, about anything. It’s a complete disaster because of that,’ Bautista Agut said in the video, originally broadcast on Israeli TV Sport 5.
However, the story has taken a bizarre twist, with Bautista Agut claiming his comments were leaked, and not part of an interview, in an apology post on Twitter.
✍???? pic.twitter.com/I8Y3bx7QK7
— Roberto BautistaAgut (@BautistaAgut) January 19, 2021
Tennis journalist Simon Briggs believes Bautista Agut was speaking to his one-time agent Amit Naor, who was sacked by sports agency Creative Artists Agency in 2017 over alleged sexual harassment allegations.
The context of Bautista interview calling quarantine "jail" is odd. He looks to be speaking not to a reporter but to Amit Naor, who was part of the CAA agenting team which represented RBA, before CAA sacked Naor in the wake of sexual-harassment allegations https://t.co/ADMaOxwNd8
— Simon Briggs (@simonrbriggs) January 19, 2021
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