NEW YORK (AP) – French tennis player Benoit Paire tested positive for coronavirus and was expelled from the U.S. Open, a user familiar with the stage told the Associated Press on Sunday.
The user spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because Paire’s prestige had been announced through the American Tennis Association.
The Grand Slam tournament begins on Monday and spectators are not allowed as a component of efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Paire, 31, ranked 17th and will face Poland’s Kamil Majchrzak in the first circular on Tuesday.
Contact tracking will now be used to know who might have been exposed to Paire and deserve to be quarantined.
His positive check was first reported through the French newspaper L’Equipe.
The user who spoke to 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.
The hard court tournament, which ended Saturday, takes place in Ohio, but has moved to the US Open site at Flushing Meadows this year.
On August 20, the USTA announced a positive check, but did not identify who it belonged to. Finally, two players, Argentina’s Guido Pella and Bolivian Hugo Dellien, said their physical trainer tested positive for COVID-19 and so they were excluded from the Western and South 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 in the second round in New York last year.
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Julian Alaphilippe, the beloved French driver of the 2019 Tour de France, retrieved the yellow jersey by winning Sunday’s level of this year’s Tour in Nice.
Alaphilippe, who strangely wore the yellow jersey for 14 days last year before completing fifth place, escaped about 8 miles to the left of an unusually early mountain stage. He moved away from the Swiss Marc Hirschi and the British Adam Yates in the last two hundred metres.
Alaphilippe took the lead of first-tier winner Alexander Kristoff of Norway. Yates is now in the place of the moment, 4 moments ago.
As with last year’s Tour, Alaphilippe is not one of the most productive contenders to win the Grand Tour once he arrives in Paris in 3 weeks. He competes this year two months after the death of his father, Jacques.
Alaphilippe pointed to the sky as he won his fifth level of the Tour in his career. You can retain the yellow jersey until the Tour reaches the Pyrenees for the eighth and nine levels.
The favorites, adding to the protective champion Egan Bernal, are 17 seconds in the general standings.
The Tour continues with the longest level on Monday, departing Nice. Coverage begins at 7 a.m. ET on NBCSN and NBC Sports Gold.
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