Coronavirus Case Discovered In US Open ‘Bubble’ | Tennis Information

A optimistic take a look at for coronavirus has been discovered within the New York tennis bubble the place the US Open is about to happen later this month, the USA Tennis Affiliation (USTA) introduced on Tuesday. USTA medical officer  Bernard Camins revealed that the one that has contracted the virus “will not be a participant” and is asymptomatic. The discovering comes after 1,400 checks for the illness have been performed since August 13 within the bubble on the Billie Jean King centre in New York Metropolis, the place the Cincinnati ATP occasion and the US Open are to be staged.

Dr. Camins mentioned the male particular person initially examined destructive however then a second take a look at two days later got here up optimistic. He added that the particular person’s lodge roommate has additionally been positioned beneath quarantine.

“It could have been good if he was optimistic the primary time. However the purpose we added the second take a look at at 48 hours was to account for the time we could not be masking,” Dr. Camins mentioned.

The US Open, which was rescheduled to begin on August 31, has been hit exhausting by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to a number of prime gamers pulling out of the event. 

Amongst these not collaborating are males’s world quantity two — and final 12 months’s champion at Flushing Meadows — Rafael Nadal and nearly all of the highest 10 from the WTA girls’s tour.

Ranked second on the earth, on Monday Simona Halep turned the newest star to skip the American Grand Slam, becoming a member of girls’s world primary Ashleigh Barty and reigning US Open champ Bianca Andreescu.

“We respect their selections always. It is as much as every particular person participant to make that call,” mentioned USTA chief government Mike Dowse.

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“I need to remind everybody, this was not a number in any respect prices. It needed to adhere to our three ideas. We’re assured it has”

Nevertheless the lads’s draw will characteristic world primary Novak Djokovic and different huge names like third-ranked Dominic Thiem and fellow prime 10 gamers Daniil Medvedev, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Alexander Zverev.