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 & Southern Open announced Wednesday that two players — who the tournament’s statement did not identify — were placed under quarantine and removed from the tournament field after being exposed to someone who tested for the illness caused by the coronavirus.
The Western and South Open is usually held in Cincinnati, but this year moved to New York as a double calendar component with the US Open due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Ratings are scheduled to begin 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 named and is not a player, has tested positive for the 1,400 COVID-19 controls administered since last week as a component of protocols for controlled environments 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 their coach, Juan Manuel Galvon.
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 placed first at No. 72 and is now No. 94, which would have placed him in the western and South Open qualifies.
On Wednesday of the tournament he said that 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 Chief Executive Mike Dowse said of the positive initial verification on a call to the convention 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.
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