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Dan Evans and Cameron Norrie paired together in Australian Open

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Preparations for the year's first grand slam are back on track after the 507 people retested for coronavirus all returned negative results.

There will be an all-British clash in the first round of the Australian Open after Dan Evans and Cameron Norrie were paired together.

There is the carrot for the winner of a possible third-round clash with second seed Rafael Nadal, while the pairing at least means there will not be a repeat of the French Open in October, where no British singles players reached the second round.

Evans is the 30th seed and Britain's main hope for a good run along with women's 13th seed Johanna Konta, who will play qualifier Kaja Juvan in the opening round.

Play in the six warm-up events was suspended on Thursday and the draw delayed but tournament director Craig Tiley expressed complete confidence the Australian Open would be able to start on time on Monday and matches resumed on Friday.

Fresh restrictions were imposed on Melbourne, which had experienced no community cases for nearly a month, but so far the city has seen no other positive tests aside from those in quarantine.

Meanwhile, eighth seed Bianca Andreescu is gearing up to play her first tournament since October 2019.

The Canadian rocketed to the top of the game that season, winning the US Open as a teenager, but a knee injury sidelined her at the beginning of last year and she did not play competitively when the tour resumed last summer.

Andreescu, now 20, sparked alarm when she pulled out of this week's Grampians Trophy but she insisted that was just a precaution after two weeks of hard quarantine.

There remain question marks over her physical frailty, but Andreescu said: "I'm working really, really hard to prevent as much as possible. Sometimes you really can't. Things just happen.

"Right now I had a long period where I can focus on those things and train to the best of my capabilities, which I've been doing. I don't always want to focus on the past. I want to focus on the future now.

"At this point I'm just super grateful to be back, healthy. And I'm really looking forward to it."

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