Berrettini pulls out of Wimbledon due to COVID-19
LONDON :Eighth seed Matteo Berrettini, runner-up at last year's Wimbledon, became the second top player to pull out of the Championships after testing positive for COVID-19.
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LONDON :Eighth seed Matteo Berrettini, runner-up at last year's Wimbledon, became the second top player to pull out of the Championships after testing positive for COVID-19.
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Matteo Berrettini, last year's runner-up at Wimbledon, dropped out of the grass-court Grand Slam tournament hours before he was scheduled to play his first-round match Tuesday, saying that he tested positive for COVID-19.
Last year’s Wimbledon runner-up Matteo Berrettini has been forced to withdraw from the Championships due to a positive coronavirus test.
Matteo Berrettini is out of Wimbledon after testing positive for Covid. Berrettini, who fell to a four-set defeat to Novak Djokovic in last year’s final, had only recently returned from surgery on his right hand. Ad/> The Italian had made a sensational comeback during the grass swing, chalking up a 9-0 record that carried him to titles at Queen’s and the Stuttgart Open, but he will now be absent from the Grand Slam at SW19.
Italy's Matteo Berrettini, the 2021 Wimbledon runner-up and a title favourite this year, pulled out of the tournament on Tuesday after testing positive for coronavirus. "I am heartbroken to announce that I need to withdraw from @wimbledon due to a positive COVID-19 test result," the 26-year-old Italian wrote on Instagram. Berrettini was widely regarded as one of the biggest threats to defending champion Novak Djokovic at the All England Club, having captured back-to-back grass-court titles in Stuttgart and Queen's.
Last year’s runner-up and one of the favourites for Wimbledon, Matteo Berrettini, has withdrawn from the tournament after testing positive for coronavirus.
LONDON :Eighth seed Matteo Berrettini, runner-up at last year's Wimbledon, pulled out of the Championships on Tuesday after testing positive for COVID-19, he said on Instagram.
LONDON : Highlights on day two of the Wimbledon tennis championships on Tuesday (all times GMT):