The French Open is scheduled to be carried out from September 21 to October 11.© AFP
All players on the French Open starting later this month may be housed in two designated resorts “with out exception” to cut back the risks from coronavirus, occasion director Man Overlook said on Monday. Overlook moreover launched that merely 11,500 spectators a day may be admitted instead of the 20,000 they’d been initially hoping to accommodate by means of the September 27-October 11 occasion. The Roland Garros difficult may be divided into three separate zones “unbiased of one another” and corresponding to each of the precept showcourts, with no crossing inbetween.
Courts Philippe Chatrier and Suzanne Lenglen may be restricted to 5,000 spectators apiece with Simonne Mathieu restricted to easily 1,500. Play on the pores and skin courts will go ahead with no spectators.
Players may be examined “upon their arrival and might get hold of their accreditation as shortly as the first harmful test is returned”, said Overlook.
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A second test may be carried out inside 72 hours after which one different every 5 days based on a participant’s growth throughout the occasion, he added.
French tennis federation director-general Jean-Francois Vilotte said: “We’re not contemplating by the use of an airtight sanitary bubble, it’s a fantasy.”
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