Tennis News: Another tennis player has been tested positive for COVID-19. This time, the player is Tomislav Brkic who competed in the Eastern European Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.
Brkic is a Bosnia-Herzegovina national and participates in the Eastern European Championships organized by Serbian Janko Tipsarevic.
To the Sports Club, Brkic revealed, “I have no symptoms, I’m just a little weak. I have been in double numbers for quite a long time and in Belgrade I have dropped in single numbers. My first match was very long, up to 3 hours, then several matches. “
“One night I felt tired. I canceled the match and I had to go home to prepare for the tournament in Italy. They asked me to do a test because you have to do it to enter the country. I did it at home, in Mostar and it turned out positive. “
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“I withdrew from the tournament and isolated myself. I don’t know where I was infected, I was in Belgrade for two weeks. I feel fine right now, except my throat hurts a little like hoarse. I told everyone who came in contact with me to be tested. “
According to Tipsarevic, Brkic conducted a test after arriving at Mostar’s house and did not come to Tipsarevic’s academy which was the venue of the tournament, for several days.
Brkic is the latest positive COVID-19. Some of the higher-ranking tennis players have also been infected with COVID-19, those who played Adria Tour – held in Serbia and Croatia earlier this month – including world number 1 Novak Djokovic, Grigor Dimitrov, Borna Coric, Viktor Troicki and Goran Ivanisevic .
The 30-year-old Brkic currently occupies 596 in the world number one and 106 in the world number double. He has won 36 double number titles in Challenger and Futures and 16 single number titles in FUTURES.
Previously, it was known that the 106th-ranked Bosnian from Bosnia, Tomislav Brkic was positively infected with COVID-19 after returning from the Eastern European Championship tournament.
