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https://www.cbc.ca/sports/tennis/tennis-grigor-dimitrov-coronavirus-positive-test-1.5621524

Grigor Dimitrov tests positive for COVID-19 after appearance at Djokovic tourney

Grigor Dimitrov said on Sunday said he has tested positive for COVID-19, making him the highest-profile tennis player to reveal he has contracted the virus.

The 29-year-old Bulgarian had been competing in the Adria Tour exhibition tournament in Croatia until he withdrew due to feeling ill during the weekend.

Goran Ivanisevic, the director of the tour's Zadar leg and Djokovic's coach, was greeted with jeers from the fans when he broke the news courtside.

"We have just been informed that Grigor Dimitrov has tested positive for coronavirus and we will have to call off the final of the tournament in Zadar," he said.

Players did not follow social distancing rules

With international tennis suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Djokovic organized the Adria Tour as a charity event designated to be contested over four legs across the former Yugoslavia.

With both Serbia and Croatia easing lockdown measures weeks before the event, players were not obliged to observe social distancing rules in either country and were seen embracing at the net at the end of their matches.

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Does hitting yourself in the face with your racket until you bleed cure covid?

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MrResetti posted...

Does hitting yourself in the face with your racket until you bleed cure covid?

They're still looking into this one

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MrResetti posted...

Does hitting yourself in the face with your racket until you bleed cure covid?

I remember Youzhny doing that a few times. Always felt bad for him.

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