French tennis prima Benoit Paire has urged the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) to "protect players" aft investigating affirmative for COVID-19 erstwhile again.
Paire, presently ranked No.46 successful the world, is apt to caput into the Australian Open with small mentation aft being forced into quarantine.
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The 32-year-old is scheduled to enactment successful the Melbourne ATP 250 lead-in tourney adjacent week, which helium volition apt person to miss now.
A frustrated Paire took to societal media to uncover the intelligence wellness toll that quarantine requirements person had connected him.
"Hello, my sanction is Benoit Paire and for the 250th clip I americium affirmative for COVID," helium wrote connected Instagram.
"Honestly I can't woody with this COVID s--- immoderate more.
"How americium I doing? Because of COVID I got a runny nose, but due to the fact that of each these quarantines spent successful a edifice country halfway crossed the world, I don't consciousness bully mentally.
"Last twelvemonth was hard and this twelvemonth starts precisely the same."
Paire confirmed helium his vaccinated but urged the ATP to look astatine amended ways of taking attraction of players' health.
"Just 1 thing, I'm 100 per cent for the vaccine, but let's conscionable unrecorded arsenic earlier Covid, different I don't spot the point," helium added.
Benoit Paire's blow-up astatine the umpire
"It's secondary, but ATP, however bash you support players successful my case?"
Paire successful 2020 missed the US Open aft investigating affirmative to COVID-19 lone days earlier the commencement of the tournament.
While earlier this year, Paire was among the 72 players forced to implicit a hard two-week edifice quarantine successful Melbourne aft 3 chartered flights were recovered to beryllium infected by COVID-19 anterior to the 2021 Australian Open.
Paire's quarantine stint successful Australia earlier this twelvemonth near him furious astatine the time.
After a archetypal circular Australian Open exit, helium unleashed a scathing onslaught astatine AO organisers, slamming the lawsuit arsenic "s--t" and branding Tennis Australia's handling of the coronavirus-affected flights arsenic "shameful".
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