Benoît Paire and anti-Covid measures do not mix.

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Benoît Paire against the ATP circuit Covid version, episode 254. This time, the Frenchman can't take it anymore.

Two days after his pitiful elimination at the tournament in Santiago de Chile, in a match where he spat on the court to show his dissatisfaction with the referee, he posted a long message on his Instagram account in which he explained that he was in deep depression. .

“The ATP circuit has become sad, boring and ridiculous.

I know, you're going to say "don't you realize how lucky you are blah-blah-blah", but playing in closed stadiums without any atmosphere, that's not why I play tennis ", he wrote.

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"Having to stay either at the hotel or at the tennis club and being prohibited from going out on pain of exclusion and a fine, where is the pleasure of traveling?" He asks then.

For me, playing tennis has become a bland profession.

So yes, I need time to adapt to this pseudo ATP circuit but I will make the efforts to try to find the pleasure of playing again.

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It will still go to Acapulco and Miami

It must be said that the 29th in the world is one of the players who has encountered the most difficulties with the health measures imposed by the tournament organizers since last summer.

He had been forced to several weeks of total isolation in a New York hotel for having tested positive for covid-19 before the start of the US Open in September.

In January, he had to undergo fourteen days of confinement on his arrival in Melbourne for the Australian Open, without any exit authorization, for having been in contact with the plane.

Not to mention his true-false positive test in Hamburg.

The Avigonnais is currently in South America, to benefit from more open living conditions.

But the heart is not really there.

He will still line up in Acapulco (March 15-20) then at the Master 1000 in Miami (March 24-April 4).

"My objective will be just to have a smile on the field and enjoy kicking a ball, whether I win or lose, I really don't care," he concludes.

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