More Tennis Players Test Positive for COVID-19

It's one thing to get infected by a virus that has become a pandemic and another thing to see players getting infected at a tournament that you organized.

Unfortunately, both have been the case for the world's number one tennis player, Novak Djokovic as Djokovic becomes the sixth tennis player who joined his "Adria Tour" who tested positive for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) and what makes it worse is that his wife had tested positive too. The good news though for the Djokovics: none of their children tested positive. 

Djokovic now joins the likes of Grigor Dimitrov, Borna Coric, Viktor Troicki, plus two coaches who tested positive for the said virus at a mini-tournament that Djokovic said was meant to "unite and share a message of solidarity and compassion"  It didn't help that the venues where the tournament was played, were packed with people.  In a statement, Djokovic said "Everything that we did in the past month, we did it with a pure heart and sincere intentions" He later apologized for each individual case of infection. 

And even before being tested positive for the virus, some in the sports media were already slamming Djokovic for organizing such a tournament in Serbia and Croatia during these trying times wherein clamps have been put into the legs of the sports industry with some leagues even getting canceled altogether. And while the Serbian authorities have earlier removed all lockdown protocols and social distancing measures earlier this month, the Serbian government has announced that it would reinstate such protocols due to the sudden spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in the country. 

In lieu of the Dimitrov infection as well as that of Djokovic, the final games of the Adria Tour have been canceled which include a game this Sunday between Djokovic and Andrey Rublev. 

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