American tennis star Frances Tiafoe withdraw from competition after resulting positive for COVID-19
American Frances Tiafoe has become the most recent tennis player to test positive for coronavirus.
- Tiafoe has tested positive for coronavirus
- He has thrown out of the All-American Team Cup tennis competition.
ATLANTA — Frances Tiafoe has tried positive for the coronavirus and pulled back from the All-American Team Cup tennis competition.
Tiafoe was planned to confront Tennys Sandgren on Saturday at the end of the week competition including eight top American men's players at Life Time Fitness in Peachtree Corners.
The occasion is permitting a set number of fans and not requiring covers, however will give them whenever mentioned.
The world number 81 had been playing in the All-American Team Cup in Georgia, the primary occasion in the US to permit fans to go to since the Covid-19 shutdown.
Tiafoe, 22, dominated his match on Friday however affirmed his withdrawal from the competition through social media on Saturday.
Highest level Novak Djokovic and three other professional players had tried positive for the infection in the wake of playing in a comparable display occasion in Europe. The master tennis visits are suspended until August.
Novak Djokovic, Grigor Dimitrov, Borna Coric, and Viktor Troicki got the infection playing in Belgrade a month ago.
Tiafoe, a quarter-finalist at the 2019 Australian Open, had tried negative a week ago and stated: "I am booked to have a second test ahead of schedule one week from now, yet have just started the isolate convention as prompted by the clinical staff here in Atlanta.
Tiafoe vanquished Sam Querrey on Friday, however, was demonstrating indications after the match and a test was certain.
"While I've been so eager to get retreat there, the wellbeing and security of everybody keep on being the main concern."
Tiafoe, a 22-year-old who arrived at the 2019 Australian Open quarterfinals, left the occasion site and was supplanted by Christopher Eubanks. Tiafoe was chief of Team Stars, playing against John Isner's Team Stripes.
The No. 81-positioned Tiafoe composed on Twitter that he had been preparing in Florida and had tried negative there as of late as seven days back. He said he has started the isolate convention suggested by the competition
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