The American tennis playerSam Querrey, current 49th in the world ranking and former 11th, he was discharged “due to illness” from the ATP 500 in St. Petersburg (indoors, on hard surface), which began this Monday after Roland Garros. Although the authorities of the Russian contest did not give details about the ailment that affects the 33-year-old player, it was known that he tested positive for Covid-19.
Querrey, who in the first round was going to face the Canadian Denis Shapovalov, second seed in Saint Petersburg, was replaced by the Serbian Viktor Troicki (he entered as a lucky loser, since he had lost in the second round of the classification against the Belarusian Ilya Ivashka). Querrey, who competed at the French Open and lost in the first round to Russian Andrey Rublev, was isolated and is asymptomatic.
This season, its twenty-fifth edition, the Saint Petersburg tournament is held for the first time in the ATP 500 category. The tournament, which distributes more than 1.2 million dollars in prizes, is held with an audience in the stands, although this must not exceed 50% of the capacity of the Sibur-Arena complex, with capacity for more than 7000 spectators.
The first seed of the contest is local Daniil Medvedev, world number 5 and champion of the last edition, who will debut this Tuesday against Frenchman Richard Gasquet.
This week, in addition, two of the new tournaments provisionally added by the ATP are played due to the special conditions of the 2020 circuit, taking into account the stoppage of more than five months due to the pandemic: the ATP 250 of Sardinia, Italy (on brick dust , outdoors) and the ATP 250 from Cologne, Germany (indoors, on hard surface).
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