Stranded tennis players in Dubai include Medvedev & Rublev as Middle East strikes ground airports - Indian Wells participation in doubt

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1:00I got them delivered free from 1-800 contacts. Oh my gosh, they're so fast. And breathe. Oh, sorry. I almost couldn't breathe when I saw the discount they gave me on my first order. Oh, sorry. Namaste. Visit 1-800-contacts.com today to save on your first order. 1-800-contacts. Ready. Play. Uh, John, last one. Oh, very good. Well, um, players stuck in Dubai. Do you think they're going to make it? Oh, yeah, right. I, I, I, it's not many of them if we're being, you know, who is it? Medvedev? Uh, Greeks for Rubelev. Well, Greeks forced people out of Indian wells and yeah, so it doesn't matter, I guess. But he's not. Um, but Rubelev is still there, because he played the semis like, yeah, who was the other semifinalist? Who lost? It was, it was Maddie in, uh, FAA. So I wonder if FAA got out. Just impossible to say.

2:01I mean, at least go on for days or weeks and, and even if you're an expert in this field, I think it would be difficult to predict. But the good-ish news is if, if it's allowed to go over land, there are probably, I'm going to have a look at the map right now, but um, uh, there are possible options of, of going by land into another country, perhaps. Now, cool. Again, there would be risks involved there if you haven't seen any hotels. But, um, yes. So let, listen, it would be unwise of me to make wild predictions about whether that'll be there. Or definitely not fine in terms of being able to leave because these things are very unpredictable. But I'm just looking at the map and then obviously not going to get on a boat and go over to Iran because that would be out of the fine pan into the fire. but is there somewhere nearby that is safe for them? I don't know exactly which places are under attack right now, but you obviously got Dubai, you've got the United Arab Emirates, you've got Qatar,

3:07you know, even maybe Saudi Arabia, but again, I don't know whether that's under attack as well. So there's just a few land options maybe, even Q8, I don't know. So I just don't know which countries basically right now are told to lock down and close all their airports and the airspace is for now. So yeah, there's that. It is a bit more isolated than if they were in maybe Qatar, whether they could probably get to re-add quite quickly. But as I said, I don't know which airspace is a close down right now. Felix got out, did he? Okay, good to know, Jean, thanks for that. So there's three players, it seems like Medvedev, Rubelev, and Greegsport, though Greegsport, of course, is pulled out of the tunnel. So it's just Rubelev and Medvedev if I understand correctly, Jean. Felix is already on sight in any wells and in practicing, whereas Medi and Rubelev are stuck in Dubai. Yeah, I'd like to have a quick look to see about the airspace situation, which countries

4:11are grounded in the Middle East. So just having a quick look according to the BBC, flights cancelled and new travel warnings issued after Iran strikes. Airlines are continuing to cancel and divert flights in the Middle East, up to the US and Israel launch strikes against Iran. Flights in and out of airports in Tel Aviv, Dubai, Doha, and other international hubs in the region have been suspended. The UK Foreign Office is warning citizens against all essential travel to Bahrain, Q8 Qatar and United Arab Emirates. So I think that's obviously travel in. That probably means that the United Arab Emirates Qatar, Q8, and Bahrain do have flights going out. And therefore, that might give Andrzej Rubelev and Daniel Medvedev a route out of the troubled region.

5:18But of course, they'll be in a stick or twist scenario in terms of whether they should leave now or wait and see if maybe things ease off. But I'm sure they'll be getting this good advice as they possibly can. If you enjoyed this video, make sure you hit that like button. Don't forget to subscribe and click that notification bell so you don't miss out on all things tennis.