Djokovic is positive for the coronavirus test

Novak Djokovic tested positive for the coronavirus test. The news was reported by the Tanjug agency.

COVID OUTBREAK IN ZADAR, BUOKER ON DJOKOVIC TOURNAMENT -If there is coronavirus among the guests, the desire to celebrate passes immediately. The Zadar cluster, triggered - as it now seems clear - by the Adria Tour, a beneficial tournament organized by Novak Djokovic, shivers the international tennis that he plans to start again in August to throw away the long stop due to the pandemic. After the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, the Croatian Borna Coric also tested positive at Covid-19. The same 23-year-old from Zagreb, who had played against Dimitrov in Zadar, broke the news on social media from Montecarlo, where he lives and where he was checked on his return. The final between the No. 1 in the world and the Russian Andrej Rublev had already been missed on Sunday. In addition to Coric's, the positivity of Marko Paniki, one of Djokovic's coaches, and Christian Groh, Dimitrov's coach, have emerged. Waiting to know the result of the buffer to which the Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic underwent, who was in Zadar on Saturday and crossed Djokovic, in addition to the Croats Marin Cilic and Goran Ivanisevic. "The meeting lasted two to three minutes, there were no handshakes, nor direct physical contact, but the prime minister decided to take the test anyway" was reported by the government of Zagreb. Djokovic himself immediately returned to Belgrade to undergo the test, as well as his family and members of the technical staff. The Serbian capital in mid-June had hosted the first stage of the Adria Tour and today the Red Star announced that five players have tested positive. On Saturday, on the occasion of the delivery of the cup to the champions of Serbia, the TV images showed the stadium crowded with 20 thousand fans, almost zero masks and the players who embrace each other on the field and then go to dinner together without any precaution. Nothing contrary to the directives of the local health authorities. Djokovic himself had responded to criticism of the scarce social distancing by highlighting that in the Balkans the coronavirus had been well contrasted. So no problem. But this was before ... Dimitrov and Coric announced that they had been infected. And now tennis is afraid. "That's what happens when the protocols are not respected. IT IS NOT A JOKE" tweeted the Australian Nick Kyrgios. A catastrophic domino effect is feared because Dominic Thiem and Alexander Zverev also attended the Adria Tour. The latter was negative, as did Cilic and Rublev, who announced that they will still quarantine for two weeks. On the other hand, Thiem has left the Balkans for a few days to go to the French Riviera and take part in a tournament-exhibition, the Ultimate Tennis Showdown, with Stefanos Tsitsipas, Matteo Berrettini and David Goffin.