All gamers on the French Open beginning later this month shall be housed in two designated inns “with out exception” to cut back the dangers from coronavirus, match director Man Neglect stated on Monday. Neglect additionally introduced that simply 11,500 spectators a day shall be admitted as a substitute of the 20,000 they had been initially hoping to accommodate through the September 27-October 11 match. The Roland Garros advanced shall be divided into three separate zones “impartial of each other” and corresponding to every of the primary showcourts, with no crossing inbetween.
Courts Philippe Chatrier and Suzanne Lenglen shall be restricted to five,000 spectators apiece with Simonne Mathieu restricted to simply 1,500. Play on the surface courts will go forward with no spectators.
Gamers shall be examined “upon their arrival and can obtain their accreditation as quickly as the primary damaging check is returned”, stated Neglect.
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A second check shall be carried out inside 72 hours after which one other each 5 days primarily based on a participant’s development within the match, he added.
French tennis federation director-general Jean-Francois Vilotte stated: “We’re not pondering when it comes to an hermetic sanitary bubble, it is a fantasy.”
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