Thiem apologizes for the Adria Tour

World tennis number three Dominic Thiem, who participated in the Belgrade stage of Adria Tour but who left the Balkans before the announcement of the positive tests for coronavirus, regretted this Thursday “an error” to be “too optimistic”.

“We trusted the rules on the Serbian government coronavirus, but we were very optimistic,” wrote the Austrian on Instagram, in his first reaction after the announcement of the positives by Serbs Novak Djokovic and Viktor Troicki, Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov and Croatian. Borna Coric.

“Our behaviour It was a mistake, we acted too euphorically. So sorry“Thiem pointed out, explaining that the excitement among the tennis players occurred because” they had not played in public for “several weeks” and were “more than happy to have fans in the tournament.”

A packed stadium, with practically no one wearing the mask and players hugging each other on the court, dining together without any precaution and a party at a disco where Djokovic and Dimitrov could be seen among others without a shirt, in addition to basketball games Without restrictions. These were the images that the Belgrade stage of the Adria Tour had left.

Thiem left the Balkans before the second stage, which was held in Zadar (Croatia), to travel to Nice and participate in the Ultimate Tennis Showdown, an innovative tournament organized by the French coach Patrick Mouratoglou. “I have passed the test five times in the last ten days and the result has been negative each time,” Thiem said Thursday.