NEW YORK (AP) – French tennis player Benoit Paire tested positive for coronavirus and got rid of the U.S. Open, the Associated Press told the associated user familiar with the stage.
Paire is the first player to test positive before the Grand Slam tournament, which begins Monday as spectators amid the pandemic.
The user spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because Paire’s prestige had not been announced through the American Tennis Association. The USTA then issued a saying that a player, whom it did not identify by a call, “had been eliminated” from the US Open after testing positive for COVID-19. He indicates that the player is asymptomatic.
The 31-year-old Paire was seeded 17th and was supposed to face Kamil Majchrzak of Poland in the first round on Tuesday. Contact tracing will now be used to determine who might have been exposed to Paire and needs to be quarantined.
His positive test was first reported by French newspaper L’Equipe.
The user who spoke to the AP stated that Pair’s output at the time has tested positive for more than 7000 COVID-19 tests administered through the USTA so far as a component of its “controlled environment” for the US Open and Western-Southern Open.
This other tournament, which ended Saturday, takes place in Ohio, but has been transferred to the US Open site at Flushing Meadows this year.
On August 20, the USTA announced positive control but did not identify who it belonged to, claiming only that it did not come from a player. Finally, two players, Argentina’s Guido Pella and Bolivian Hugo Dellien, said their physical trainer tested positive for COVID-19 and that’s why they were excluded from the Western and Southern Open.
Paire stopped his initial attack at the Western and South Open on 22 August when he led 6-1, 1-0 against Borna Coric.
Paire ranks 22rd, has 3 ATP titles and reached the fourth circular of the U.S. Open in 2015, matching its functionality in any Grand Slam tournament.
He lost at the time in New York last year.
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