After Matteo Berrettini 's farewell to Wimbledon for Covid, among the most highly rated for final success, there are many athletes who seem to be preparing to leave the All England Club for the same reason.

An epidemic, therefore, which risks marking the most famous grass tennis facility in the world, and on which a media fuss has already arisen, also thanks to some shocking statements released at a press conference by the French Alizé Cornet .

"At Roland-Garros there was an epidemic of Covid-19 and no one was talking about it" declared the world number 37 tennis player at the end of the first round victory over the Kazakh Julija Putinceva. we said nothing, "he added again.

Cornet focused, in particular, on Krejcikova 's retirement in the third round of the slam on clay, forced to leave due to a double positive buffer: "When we see that Krejcikova is retiring ... We could all have had 3 symptoms and we are playing, everything is fine. At Roland-Garros there must have been some cases, but with an unspoken agreement between us we moved on. I saw girls wearing masks because they did not want to transmit the virus ... about ".

(Unioneonline / vl)

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