Alarm in Argentine tennis days before the Australian Open: a wedding unleashed an outbreak of Covid-19

This Saturday Andrea Collarini got married and later tested positive for coronavirus. The party was attended by Coria, Etcheverry, Londero, Bagnis, Olivo, Molteni and Andreozzi.

Several were lit alarms at Argentine tennis which can turn out to be bad news. Last Saturday, the national tennis player Andrea Collarini got married in Córdoba and invited several of his colleagues to the party. The problem lies in that he and Delfina Novillo Corvalán, his partner, tested positive for Covid-19, so a bud with focus on wedding, outdoors and with 300 guests. All a few weeks from the beginning of Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the season.

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Federico Coria, Thomas Etcheverry, Juan Ignacio Londero, Facundo Bagnis, Renzo Olivo, Andrés Molteni, Guido Andreozzi and the current coach Carlos Berlocq They were present at the party held in a country house in Villa del Totoral. After the marriage, Collarini presented symptoms and, after the corresponding swab, he learned that he and his partner had Covid-19. Both warned all the guests, who had to be tested as a precaution. Londero tested positive after the control, although with mild symptoms.

The biggest drawback for tennis players is that several should travel in the next few days to Australia (starts on January 17) to start the preparation process for the Australia Open, the first Grand Slam of 2022. Even Coria and Molteni are part of the Argentine team of the ATP Cup which will be played from January 1 to 9 in Sydney as a prelude. That delegation is completed by Diego Schwartzman, Federico Delbonis and Maximum González and that integrates the D zone together with Greece, Poland and Georgia.

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As reported Telam, Most of the tennis players present at the wedding were going to travel on December 27 from Chile to Australia, although now that flight was in suspense waiting for the corresponding PCRs, since no other positive test has been officially reported so far.

Argentina will have as insured representatives in the singles table of the first GS of 2022 to Schwartzman (13th in the ranking), Delbonis (44°), Coria (63°), Bagnis (76 °), Juan Manuel Cerúndolo (90 °) and Sebastian Baez (99 °), accounting for the withdrawal of Guido Pella (74 °), who decided not to be present at the appointment. Besides, the qualy will have as main protagonists Francisco Cerúndolo (127°), Etcheverry (130 °) and own Collarini (262 °), who still dreams of participating in his first Major. In the doubles section, the country has three representatives in the Top 100: Horacio Zeballos (6 °), Machi González (22 °) and Molteni (46°).

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