The U.S. Tennis Association He has not decided how many burning participants will force the cancellation of the Grand Slam tournament
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Washington, August 8
A player who tested positive for Covid-19 will be excluded from the US Open, but the American Tennis Association has not decided how many inflamed participants would force the Grand Slam tournament to be canceled.
According to a 10-and-a-half pages of “Player Quality Control Update” submitted this week through the USTA, “There are no rules on the number (of positive tests) that will require” cancellation from the United States. .
Open or the one that will precede you at Flushing Meadows this month amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Western and South Open, held in Cincinnati, is scheduled for the hard courts of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center from August 20 to 28, followed by the US Open from August 31 to September 13. Spectators will not be allowed in any of the tournaments. .
As the USTA progresses, announce withdrawals due to the pandemic.
Number five Elina Svitolina of Ukraine, a semi-finalist at the 2019 US Open and number 7 Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands wrote on social media on Friday that they would be in New York.
They are included in a developing absentee list that already included ranked woman Ash Barty, the protective male champion, Rafael Nadal, and others such as Stan Wawrinka and Nick Kyrgios.
Bertens spoke of the desire to be quarantined when he returned to Europe for clay-court tournaments in Rome and Paris that are scheduled after the US Open.
Players asked the USTA to provide them with a transit card that would allow them to ignore an era of quarantine when they travel from New York to Europe.
USTA spokesman Chris Widmaier said Friday that his organization and its representatives were in contact with the WTA, the ATP, the French tennis federation and the government in Italy and France on the issue.
“We are confident that by working with this expanded group, we will get the guarantees that players would like,” Widmaier wrote in an email.
Among the coronavirus-related protocols explained in this week’s USTA update for players: players and visitors, up to 3 consistent with a single player, will have to pass two nasal sampling checks over the coronavirus 48 hours after arrival, they are allowed to pass. to the tournament site if the first check is negative.
“We expect the effects to be returned within 24 hours or less,” says the USTA document.
Antibody testing is recommended, but it is not mandatory. Those who test positive for antibodies will undergo COVID-19 follow-up tests every seven days; those that have negative effects for antibodies – or those that are not controlled – will have to pass COVID-19 tests every 4 days for the rest of their time in the “bubble”. Players want written permission from tournament director Stacy Allaster or medical director to leave the “bubble” set up for any occasion at Flushing Meadows; otherwise, they will be fined and expelled from competition. If coaches or visitors leave the “bubble,” they will lose their 2020 ID card and will not be allowed to get one next year.
In addition to two official hotels for players and their guests, personal accommodation will be rented. Anyone who stays there will go through the same initial testing procedures and then want new nasal samples every 4 days, the USTA said, “unless the medical team makes a different decision.”
Players who remain in rental homes must have, and pay, 24-hour security, and the USTA “will have to have access to external security and access the data for the duration of the stay in personal accommodation.” Ap
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