"At Roland Garros there was an epidemic of Covid-19 but no one talked about it. In the locker rooms they all had it and we didn't say anything. After that, I saw girls wearing masks, perhaps because they knew it and didn't want to. pass it on: you also need to have a civic sense ".
To make these statements, from Wimbledon, answering a question about the resurgence of infections and the Berrettini and Cilic cases, is the French tennis player Alizé Cornet, number 1 in her country and 37 in the world, at the end of the match in which she imposed herself over the Kazakh Yulia Putintseva for 6-3 7-6.
"When you see that Borbora Krejcikova retires and that the whole locker room is bad - he added -, you think about it. When it comes out on great players like those (referring to Berrettini and Cilic ed) then the fire will light up. However I don't want to underestimate it. the Covid effect, but there have always been withdrawals because the players were sick, and people put out of the flu or gastrointestinal diseases. Indeed, with the latter in the past there have been 'massacres' ".
Then again on the Paris tournament: "there were three or four retirements, maybe the protocol was not implemented. Or maybe we all had the flu, some symptoms, a sore throat and we played as if everything was going well. There have been some cases at Roland Garros and there must also have been a tacit agreement between us: '
When asked about the possible return of a tighter health protocol to Wimbledon, Cornet's response was "I hope they don't."
"They have already taken away our points (by decision of the ATP and WTA, in reaction to the exclusion of Russians and Belarusians due to the invasion of Ukraine, ed) he added - and now we miss this too. "is psychosis. At Covid we paid the price, we ate our black bread with a year of testing and we all vaccinated ourselves. We must be consistent, Covid is now part of our lives".
But now would you do a self-test like Berrettini did?
"I'm not going to do it and maybe put myself in me ...".
