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But what can be hiding behind Benoît Paire's enigmatic post Insta?

The French player, banned from the start of the US Open after having tested positive for coronavirus, published a story whose main message is "not in the bubble", a reference to the bubble in which the players are competing at Flushing Meadows.

“I'm fine so far I have no symptoms…, wrote Paire.

I hesitate to tell what is really going on in this FAKE BUBBLE ”.

All this against a backdrop of English-French translations of the term “healthy environment.

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Mannarino also criticized the bubble

“It was clearly indicated that the player who contracted the virus did not respect the health protocols approved by the State of New York,” replied the American Tennis Federation (USTA), organizer of the tournament.

According to a source close to the case, Paire is accused of guilty laxity in wearing a mask, which is compulsory on the site, except for eating, training and playing.

His positive Covid-19 test led to the placing under ultra-restrictive surveillance of seven other players, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Three of them are known to have already expressed themselves on the subject and their situation: Edouard Roger-Vasselin, Kristina Mladenovic and Adrian Mannarino, who on the first day of the competition, denounced the porosity of the system.

The latter explained on Monday that some people working on the site of the tournament returned home in the evening and that the system put in place by the USTA was more of a "secure environment" than a bubble.

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