A victory, and a few memorable sentences.
After her victory in two sets (6-3, 7-6) over Kazakh Yulia Putintseva on Tuesday afternoon in the first round of Wimbledon, Alizé Cornet took advantage of her press conference to discuss the Covid-19, which disrupts the table of the tournament on grass with the packages of Marin Cilic and Matteo Berrettini.
But, according to the tricolor, who is playing her 62nd Grand Slam in a row in London, the virus was already widely present a month ago at Roland-Garros.
“At Roland-Garros there was an epidemic of Covid-19 and nobody talked about it.
In the locker room, everyone had it and we said nothing, assures the Frenchwoman, forced to retire in the third round on Parisian clay.
When we see that Krejcikova (Editor's note: tested positive and who had given up participating in the doubles tournament) is withdrawing and the whole locker room is sick..."
“We are not going to test ourselves to get into trouble”
“We all might have had the flu, three symptoms, itchy throat and we play, everything is fine.
At Roland-Garros, there must have been a few cases and it must have been a tacit agreement between us, she continues.
We are not going to self-test to get ourselves into trouble.
I saw girls wearing masks because they didn't want to pass it on… But I won't say more.
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Covid-19 screening tests were not compulsory at Roland-Garros.
The Czech Barbora Krejcikova, second in the world, had chosen to undergo a screening test after feeling symptoms.
At Wimbledon, the positive cases of Cilic and Berrettini open the table of Rafael Nadal.
