Argentina’s Guido Pella got angry with the organizers of the US Open, whom he accuses of having changed the rules after Benoît Paire tested positive for the coronavirus.
Argentinian Guido Pella, excluded from the Masters 1000 in Cincinnati for having closely tested positive for Covid-19, accused the organizers of the US Open on Tuesday of having “changed the rules” after Benoît Paire tested positive. “I’m angry with them,” he said, targeting the American Federation, which subsequently organized the Cincinnati tournament and the US Open in a health bubble in Flushing Meadows.
He suspects a call from the French Tennis Federation
“They changed the rules after Benoît tested positive and I want to know why,” claimed Pella, beaten by JJ Wolf in the first round of the American Grand Slam. I don’t know if they received a phone call from France. or if they have a close relationship with the French Federation. I am sad because I have experienced one of the worst injustices a sportsman can experience. “
In the case of Paire, who tested positive just before the start of the US Open, several players who knew him were placed under increased surveillance, but were allowed to participate in the tournament as long as they were negative. A few days earlier, Pella and Bolivian player Hugo Dellien had been excluded without discussion from the Masters 1000 in Cincinnati because, although both negative, their physical trainer had tested positive.
“I am happy for them (the French players) that they were able to participate in the US Open, he said. I know for sure that Paire passed a second test immediately after the first came back. positive. Whereas my preparer had to wait 4 or 5 days because, they told me, the New York Department of Health doesn’t retest if you are positive. “
He asserted that the USTA had even refused that they make themselves and at their expense this second test, arguing that “there was almost no chance that it was a false positive”. “But we did two or three tests and it was negative each time, assured Pella. So I want to know why they did this to us and not to the French.”
Although tested negative multiple times thereafter, Pella and Dellien were denied “a short to workout or a bike to keep busy” for several days.
