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Of: Makoto Asahara, TT-Reuters
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This year’s edition of the French Open has encountered concerns even before it started.
Five players have been excluded from the playoffs for the competition due to positive coronate tests.
This at the same time that question marks are raised to the audience that is planned to be let in during the Grand Slam tournament.
Five players are excluded from the French championship qualifiers because two players and a coach tested positive for covid-19.
Playoffs begin on Monday, while the main tournament begins on September 27.
“The management of the Roland Garros competition can confirm that two players in the qualifying tournament have tested positive for covid-19 and three other players have been in close contact with a coach who tested positive. According to the sanitary regulations of the tournament, the five players will not participate but isolate you for seven days, ”writes the French Tennis Federation (FFT) in a press release.
“I don’t have a chance”
Neither FFT nor the competition management have announced which players they are.
But Damir Dzumhur himself confirms on his Instagram that he is one of the excluded players as his coach Petar Popović tested positive.
“That’s why I can’t play Roland Garros. He didn’t have the opportunity to do a second test and we’re sure it would have been negative because he has antibodies. write Bosnian.
This year’s edition of the French Open was supposed to be played in May / June, but has been postponed until now due to the corona virus.
“Too many people”
Despite the corona virus, organizers have announced that they plan to let spectators into the stands, with a maximum of 5,000 per match day.
During the WTA tournament in Strasbourg, the last preparatory competition for the Grand Slam competition in Paris, up to 2,500 spectators were allowed. And the experiences there have caused concern about Roland Garros for some players.
– There were too many people. I don’t think the players feel comfortable. It is not bad that there are people in the audience, but those people meet us in the corridors, ask for photos and autographs of all the players and it is difficult to say no. They could have been better managed, says French player Alize Cornet, according to Essentiallysports, after participating in Strasbourg.
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