Released in 3 sets from the 1st Round of the US Open against Russian Andrey Rublev, Jérémy Chardy gave his feelings after the meeting on the health bubble currently in place for this Grand Slam tournament. The Frenchman regrets the restrictive conditions for the players and wishes quickly a “return to normal”.
Jérémy Chardy will not see the 2nd Round of the US Open tournament. The Frenchman was eliminated on Wednesday when he entered the fray, in 3 sets against Russian Andrey Rublev (6-4, 6-4, 6-3), seed number 10 at Flushing Meadows. After the game, the experienced French player gave his thoughts on the health bubble currently in place to allow the tournament to be held.
“It’s not easy to be here and to have no one with you”
“It’s new to me, I did not expect it to be such a big change in life. I find myself in the bubble where we can not do anything, said Jérémy Chardy to RMC Sport after his defeat at the 1st Round. Mentally, it is not the easiest “.
Having become by force of circumstances and the health context the second Grand Slam of the 2020 season, the US Open is played behind closed doors. The players are subject to many constraints and placed in a health bubble. “This is not the tournament and my vision of tennis so I hope it will quickly return to normal, reacted Chardy. I think that for everyone it is not easy to be here, d ‘to have no one, to be able to have contact with people, to have the mask all the time. I do not think that this is the life that everyone wants so here it is very much back to normal “.
“Some contact cases go through hell, others normally”
In the event of a positive coronavirus case, as was the case for Benoit Paire, the player is immediately forfeited from the tournament and placed in isolation, like the contact cases. “Since you can’t really do anything, you’re supposed to be protected so no one is supposed to catch the virus so I don’t know how Benoit got it, it’s a mystery too, Chardy asks. After what is weird it is that some in contact with him who are in isolation and who live a hell and others who live normally so I understand that they are a little irritated “.
If the return to normal will not take place in the coming weeks, Jérémy Chardy will now be able to project himself on the clay and Roland-Garros season which begins on September 21 with a number of spectators. What can make the players smile again?
