French tennis player Benoît Paire announced on Wednesday that he had tested positive for Covid-19 again, which could call into question his participation in the Australian Open and at the very start of the season. On his Instagram account, he especially expressed his fed up with the situation. “Hello my name is Benoît Paire and for the 250th time I am positive for Covid !! Frankly, I can’t take more of your shitty Covid !! “, tweeted the French. Pair, 46th in the world, had in particular already tested positive during the US Open 2020, which had led to a forced quarantine of several days in New York, then again a few weeks later at the Hamburg tournament.
This new contamination seriously calls into question its preparation for the Australian Open (January 17-30). Especially since mentally, the French are not at their best. “How I go ? Because of the Covid, I have a runny nose, but because of all these quarantines spent in a room on the other side of the world, I don’t feel very well in my head“, wrote Pair Wednesday.”Last year was tough and this year starts off the same“, he continues, before calling on the tennis courts.”@ATPTour you defend how the players in my case?“.
If he is exhausted, the player still takes the trouble to specify that he is at 100% for the vaccine “but in this case, let’s live again as before otherwise I do not see the point“. If he is deprived of the Australian Open, Benoît Paire will not be the only French player absent. Pierre-Hugues Herbert will not be in the game since it is mandatory to be vaccinated to participate in the first Grand Slam of the year and that the doubles champion assumes to be anti-tax. At the beginning of December, he was explained in the pages of DNA : “Personally, I am not vaccinated and the trip to Australia was not possible for me (…) For my part, it is a personal choice not to be vaccinated “.
Hopefully for Benoît Paire that he will quickly get rid of the virus and can start the 2022 season under the best auspices. In the meantime, he must be able to find some comfort in the arms of his companion, Julie Bertin.