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Tímea Babos, Kristina Mladenovic, who stood out in first place, was excluded from the women’s doubles competition of the American International Tennis Championships. The French player is one of 11 tennis players who came into contact with Benoit Paire, who is infected with the coronavirus, but only Mladenovic has competed.
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| Babos Tímea and Kristina Mladenovic were eliminated from the US Open (Photo: AFP) |
Initially, the eighth final match between Tímea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic of France, originally scheduled for Saturday, which would have been played against Gabriela Dabrowski of Canada and Alison Riske of the United States, was postponed until Sunday and then excluded from the US Open .
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One of the background to the decision is that one of the people who came into direct contact with Frenchman Benoit Paire, who was withdrawing from the fight due to a coronavirus infection, was Mladenovic, who also trained and played cards with his compatriot. Of the contacts, he is the only one who remains in the race after saying goodbye on Friday to Adrian Mannarino, who has been waiting for almost three hours before he can play against the German Alexander Zverev. (According to French press reports, Mannarino may have played because New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo granted him special permission, but he no longer did so for Mladenovic.)
The exclusion is also incomprehensible because Mladenovic has been playing tennis continuously in recent days and has consistently produced a negative coronavirus test, although he and his brother, Luka, have harshly criticized the conduct and circumstances of the Grand Slam tournament. That is, if security had been thinking about the organizers, they would have had to move much earlier.
According to information from an American portal called ESPN, Mladenovic has already been seen at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Airport, which is interesting because, in theory, like Paire’s direct contacts, he would be quarantined for a week at the hotel and only he would use training ground to prepare for Roland Garros.
However, the number one victim was Tímea Babos, who was reluctant to travel to the United States in the first place, but if she had already undertaken it, she wanted to win the doubles competition, in which she and her girlfriend were outstanding in the first place. , and obviously he wanted to make as much money as possible.
Maybe next year …
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