US Open: Benoit Paire tested positive - several players in isolation
Benoit Paire tested positive for the COVID-19 virus one day before the 2020 US Open. According to the L'Équipe, the Frenchman and a few other players are in their hotel rooms, waiting for further instructions.
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last edit: Aug 30, 2020, 03:53 pm
The US Open 2020 have their first crisis: On the one hand, because Benoit Paire tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. The French should be out of the running. Paire is seeded in 17th position in New York City, and his turn would be against Poland's Kamil Majchrzak in round one. According to the L´Équipe , other players have also been sent into isolation: Richard Gasquet, Adrian Mannarino, Gregoire Barrere and Edouard Roger-Vasselin. Plus the coach Nicolas Copin.
The named people have been sent to their rooms to wait for instructions. Austria's doubles legend Jürgen Melzer is also indirectly affected: He called in doubles with Roger-Vasselin. And according to the draw in round one, he would face defending champions Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah.
Under the special conditions in New York City, the failure of Paire would have further effects on the doubles field: The USTA has planned that late cancellations in the singles tableau are not caught by lucky losers, but by the doubles players who are best ranked in singles become. The reward for this would be 61,000 US dollars in prize money.