Verdasco, low due to coronavirus: “They have taken away my right to participate in Roland Garros”

The Spanish Fernando Verdasco has communicated this Friday, much to his “regret and feeling total frustration”, that you will not be able to play the Roland Garros tournament, that starts on Sunday, by have given positive in a COVID-19 test upon arrival in Paris Y after having overcome the disease asymptomatically in August. “This year I will not be able to participate in Roland Garros much to my regret and feeling a total frustration “, writes Verdasco in his networks social.

“In August I passed COVID-19 asymptomatically, I followed the isolation instructions and returned to my routine after testing negative in two PCR tests consecutive “explained the Madrid tennis player. “Since then I have had multiple PCR tests with results negative in all, including the one carried out in the Masters tournament 1,000 from Rome. I tested negative again a few days ago in the test that I did before going to Hamburg, although I did not play in the end by professional decision to better prepare for Roland Garros, “he continued.

“My team and my family traveled to Paris and we went back to do the corresponding PCR test. They all tested negative except me. Try to explain my history and situation to try to request another test, especially after having seen what happened in similar cases with other players “, Verdasco narrated. “The organization of Roland Garros he refused to take another test, even taking into account all these circumstances and that there were enough days to repeat the tests before the competition and the draw for the draw. Likewise, I was disqualified “, he pointed.

Verdasco affirmed that this same Thursday he proceeded to do it on his own two PCR tests and one serology test “in different centers for greater guarantee “, adding that the results show that “it is negative for COVID-19 in all of them. “ “This could happen to any player or his team (as there has been cases already), and in my opinion the minimum is to do new tests to avoid unfair direct disqualifications and give players some security. If there is time to test again, at least you should not deny your petition, “he says. “I want to communicate my total frustration and outrage with the organization by Roland Garros for taking away the right to participate in this event so important without even giving me the opportunity to take another test with a new sample to confirm that the result of the first could be a mistake, “concluded Fernando Verdasco.