Damn hidden card game! These 45 minutes spent with Benoît Paire during the week of the Cincinnati Masters 1000 are definitely costing the seven players identified as contact cases of the 23rd in the world, tested positive for COVID-19 last Saturday, forfeited for the US Open and placed in isolation in his room for ten days.
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Already placed in “the bubble of the bubble” after having feared to be squarely offside for the US Open, the French Adrian Mannarino, Richard Gasquet, Grégoire Barrère, Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Kristina Mladenovic, as well as the Belgians Ysaline Bonaventure and Kirsten Flipkens have, according to our information, had confirmation of another bad news Thursday evening: they are stuck in New York until September 11 inclusive, two weeks since their last contact with Paire.
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Very uncertain presence at the Masters 1000 in Rome
Thursday at 3:30 p.m. local time (9:30 p.m. in France), a meeting was held between ATP, the American Federation (USTA) and the New York State Department of Health to determine the fate of this group of players and coaches accompanying them. For two days, the French authorities had been negotiating with their American counterparts to try to repatriate the players more quickly with, in particular, the provision of a plane in which only the French would have been authorized to board. It didn’t work out.
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While they are only two, Mannarino in singles and Mladenovic in doubles, still in contention in New York, all will have to take their troubles patiently. The restrictions will remain the same as since last Saturday, namely that they will be tested daily and will only be able to leave their room to go to train, without access to the elevators or to common areas (locker room, gyms, etc.) .
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The only good news is that they will be able to “hit” on clay. The USTA agreed to give them access to ocher courts at another site in New York. On the other hand, their presence at the Masters 1000 in Rome (September 14-20) is very uncertain, particularly for Gasquet, Barrère and Flipkens, registered for the qualifications of the Roman tournament which begin … on the 12th, date on which they should take the plane to leave the United States.
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