The victims of the pre-classified at Wimbledon continue: Bautista Agut tested positive for the covid and said goodbye to the tournament

World number 19, Roberto Bautista Agut, had to retire from Wimbledon this Thursday after testing positive for covid-19 in the test before his confrontation against Daniel Elahi Galan (109 °). In this way the Colombian goes to the third round without playing.

“Today I notified Wimbledon of my retirement. I tested positive for Covid-19. Fortunately, the symptoms aren’t very serious, but I think it’s the best decision. Thank you for your support. I hope to be back soon, “wrote the tennis player on Twitter.

And he added, in English: “I had to retire due to Covid. I hope to be back soon”.

The Spaniard, seeded 17th and semi-finalist in 2019, He is the third player to leave the tournament after contracting the Coronavirus. The other two are also of great importance: the Croatian Marin Cilic (17th) and the Italian Matteo Berrettini (11th), finalist of the 2021 and 2017 editions.

Galán, for his part, will face the winner of the duel between Canadian Denis Shapovalov (16th) and American Brandon Nakashima (56th) and will try to reach the round of 16 of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career. .

The exodus of seeds in Wimbledon does not stop. In addition to the fifteen that had greeted each other in the first two days of competition, eight more were added on Wednesday, three from the men’s tournament and five from the women’s tournament, including Norwegian Casper Ruud, third favorite, and Estonian Anett Kontaveit, second. Now we will have to add another one with the departure of Bautista Agut.