Dominic Thiem was in Belgrade in mid-June for one of the stages of the Adria Tour. Faced with the controversy that has swelled since the beginning of the week, after the positive tests at Covid-19 by Djokovic, Dimitrov, Coric and Troicki, the Austrian wanted to react.
“I was in shock when I heard what had happened. We played without audiences for weeks so we were more than happy to have fans for the competition, he said on Instagram. We trusted the rules put in place by the Serbian government on Covid-19. , but we were overly optimistic. "
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"Our behavior was a mistake, we acted too euphorically," he added. I am extremely sorry. "After Belgrade, Thiem did not continue with the other players. He returned home then participated in the UTS, organized by Patrick Mouratoglou in Sophia-Antipolis. Could it have infected people in the south of France? "I have been tested five times in the past ten days, the results have always been negative," he says.
Criticized on all sides in recent days, the organizer of this tour in the Balkans, Novak Djokovic, has received the support of his coach - and incidentally director of this tournament -, Goran Ivanisevic. “It's easy to be the smartest in the world now. Novak tried something big, something of a humanitarian nature, after we had all been imprisoned together for three months, "said the Croatian on Sportklub, in words relayed by the Team .
A cluster, really?
The 2001 Wimbledon winner admits that the maligned nightclub outing was not essential, but no one went there under duress. Above all, according to him, the starting point for infections may be to look elsewhere.
“Marko Paniki, Novak Djokovic's fitness trainer, was not at the party, but he is positive. I was with Novak in Belgrade every day, as well as in Zadar, and I am not. Miljan Amanovic, Novak's physiotherapist, has treated Grigor Dimitrov's elbow in Zadar more than once, and his test is negative. Can someone explain this to me? "
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