Two players, Argentina’s Guido Pella and Bolivian Hugo Dellien, said their physical preparer tested positive for COVID-19 and that’s why they were excluded from the tennis tournament that will precede the U.S. Open at their Flushing Meadow headquarters.
Pella and Dellien posted separate videos on Instagram after the Western and South Open announced Wednesday that two players, who were not identified by the tournament, were quarantined and removed from the tournament grounds after being exposed to someone who was tested for the related coronavirus. disease.
The Western and South Open usually takes place in Cincinnati, however, this year it moved to New York as a component of a double calendar with the US Open due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The ranking is expected to begin on Thursday for the event; The Grand Slam tournament is scheduled to begin on August 31.
The U.S. Tennis Association has not been able to do so. But it’s not the first time Announced Tuesday that a user, whom he has not yet appointed has not qualified as a player, has said he is sure of the 1,400 COVID-19 controls administered since last week as a component of protocols for controlled environments for any Tournaments This user tested positive at a time after arrival and told him to isolate himself for 10 days.
Both Pella and Dellien said so by their coach, Juan Manuel Galvon.
Pella said the trio were in combination in Miami last week to return to the festival after a rupture caused by the pandemic.
Pella, 30, quarter-finals at Wimbledon last year, has the best rating of her career with No.20 and lately he’s at No.35.
Dellien, 27, reached the circular moment of the 2019 U.S. Open on his tournament debut, ranked first as No.72 and now it’s No.94, which would have put him in the rankings for the Western
On Wednesday of the tournament he said the touch search “determined that two players were in close and extended contact” with the user who tested positive and noted that the players showed no symptoms.
“We expected this to happen,” USTA Executive Director Mike Dowse said of positive initial verification on a convention call with reporters Tuesday.”Mathematically, we hoped to have a positive result, if not more than one.So we have planned it and we have put in place a very fast protocol to prevent it from spreading on a giant scale …Our number one priority is to take care of that user in the first position and then prevent the propagation from spreading further.
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