When you are a sportsman, the subject of vaccination is always to be handled with tweezers.
Gaël Monfils has just found out at great expense.
The French No. 1 withdrew on Tuesday for the Davis Cup play-off match scheduled for March 4 and 5 in Pau against Ecuador.
The Parisian justified his withdrawal by a need for rest because of a "little health glitch" probably due "to my third dose of vaccine".
It was enough for the antivax to go up to the net and seize the news to make the world No. 23, 35, the perfect example of the misdeeds of injection.
Faced with the avalanche of often virulent reactions on social networks, Monfils had to put things right.
1st dose✔️😃 #VaccinationCovid pic.twitter.com/4Jt2nW6ARm
— Gael Monfils (@Gael_Monfils) April 30, 2021
“Thank you very much for all your messages of support.
This tweet was a simple update on my current state of form following my last packages.
After several examinations, the doctors made a hypothesis about the potential nature of my state of health.
The causes of my pips remain unclear and even the doctors cannot tell me exactly what it is due to, he wrote.
My goal was simply to be transparent with you and not to push antivax propaganda.
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The Habs fully assume to be vaccinated, like 99 of the 100 best in the world.
Only Novak Djokovic, in fact, has not gone through the sting box and must now compose his program according to the countries where his status allows him to go after having made headlines at the last Australian Open.
"I don't regret having been vaccinated at all"
“Let's stop appropriating everyone's words for political ends or simply to serve your convictions.
I do not regret having been vaccinated at all, continues Monfils, who had been one of the rare blue-white-red sportsmen to post a photo of his arm when he had been given the first dose.
Everyone does what he wants.
I feel better and better and I hope to be ready for Indian Wells!
(lazy to answer all the haters like last time but you always make me laugh so much and thank you for that)”.
Among the other French players, only Pierre-Hugues Herbert (who contracted Covid at the start of the year) is resistant to vaccination.
Jérémy Chardy had severe side effects last summer when he returned from the Tokyo Olympics.
Physically diminished for many months, victim of paralyzing pain, the Palois is preparing to return to competition in a few weeks... more than eight months after his last match against Zverev in the quarter-finals of the Olympic tournament.
