Two players, Argentine Guido Pella and Bolivian Hugo Dellien, said their physical trainer 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, whom the tournament did not identify, 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 is usually held in Cincinnati, but this year was transferred to New York as a double program component with the US Open due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Qualifying 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 announced Tuesday that a user, who has not yet been named and is not a player, has been positive about the 1,400 COVID-19 controls administered since last week as a component of protocols for the controlled environment for any of the tournaments. This user tested positive at a time after his arrival and told him to isolate himself for 10 days.
Both Pella and Dellien told him about his coach, Juan Manuel Galván.
Pella said the trio was in a combination in Miami last week, to return to the festival after a breakup caused by the pandemic.
Pella, 30, a quarter-final at Wimbledon last year, has the best of his career high at No. 20 and is lately No. 35. It would have been in the main draw of the Western and South Open.
Dellien, 27, reached the 2019 U.S. Open circular moment on his tournament debut. He ranked 72 and now 94, which would have placed him in the qualifying for the Western and South Open.
The Wednesday after the tournament said the tap 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 Chairman Mike Dowse said of the initial positive verification on a conference call with reporters on Tuesday. “Mathematically, we expected to have a positive result, if not more than one. So we’ve planned it and put in place a very fast protocol to prevent it from spreading on a giant scale. Array… Our number one precedence is to take care of that user in the first position and then prevent the propagation from spreading further.