They reveal that at Roland Garros there was an agreement between the tennis players to hide the Covid cases

In the world of tennis, the threat of a new wave of coronavirus has reappeared, after Marin Cilic and Matteo Berrettini were forced to retire from Wimbledon before their debut after testing positive. The withdrawal of the Italian, one of the candidates to go far on the grass of the All of England, triggered an alarm in the contest, which warned it would re-examine the protocol to avoid a mass epidemic. Although a couple of players played down the situation and the French Alize Cornet He was very hard on the organization of the English Grand Slam and revealed that at Roland Garros there was “an epidemic of cases” and a tacit agreement between the players to hide them.

“In Paris there was a real coronavirus epidemic, no one talked about it. In the locker room everyone understood and we didn’t say anything. We will not test ourselves to get in trouble! “, Assured Cornet, 37th in the standings, after beating the Kazakh 6-3, 7-6 (7-5) on her London debut. Julia Putintseva (33 °).

And he continued: “Barbora Krejcikova withdrew from the double at Roland Garros for Covid and when you see it all the rest of the circuit is sick, with the same symptoms, like cough and sore throat, you got it right. But we played the same way and everything went well. I saw colleagues with masks in all the common areas because they were sure they had it and didn’t want to infect anyone“.

Soon after, he came out to tone down his Twitter words: “I said it ‘suspected’ of some cases of Covid during the French Open, without having any evidence. It was, above all, to emphasize that the virus was already part of our lives and that we had to deal with it. New paragraph “.

The Frenchwoman impressed the organizers of the competition and said it would make no sense for the competition to take the protocols to extremes now.

“I do not want to underestimate the impact of Covid, but it is something that is already part of our routine life. We are vaccinated, we spend a year and a half in health bubbles and we fulfill our mission. I hope that the time of psychosis is behind us. . No, it would not make sense for the tournament to start massive testing now and establish firm protocols. They have already made a controversial decision not to hand out points, that would already be the straw that breaks the camel’s camel, “criticized the player.

Maria Sakkarfifth favorite, coincided with Cornet.

“We have to get back to normal life. It is a real shame that two players had to retire due to COVID. Very unfortunate that they were infected right now, in this very special tournament. In the end, it will all affect us at some point. There are some things that don’t allow you to play a game of tennis, and COVID is one of them, ”said the Greek, who started off with a 6-1, 6-4 win over the Australian. Zoe hives (571 ° and from qualy).

Croatian Cilic announced on Monday that he would not be able to play in London because he had not physically recovered from the symptoms of Covid he had suffered in recent days. On Tuesday, Berrettini announced his retirement and caused concern in All England.

It is that the Italian, who had won consecutively in Stuttgart and Queen’s, had trained in recent days with Rafael Nadal and had also shared a moment of relaxation with Novak Djokovic in the preview of the tournament and they had also posed together for a selfie at the Center Court.

“As an important event, we work closely with the UK Health Safety Agency and our local authority. We have stepped up hand cleaning and sanitation, as well as offering comprehensive medical support to anyone who is sick. the United States Kingdom guidelines on the evaluation and isolation of all possible infectious diseases. Our medical team continues to use masks, “the organization announced.