Johanna Konta of Britain has had to pull out of Wimbledon because a member of her staff tested positive for Covid-19. The All England Club confirmed the news, noting that the three-time Grand Slam semi-finalist was found to have had close contact with a team member and has been ordered to self-isolate for ten days.<\/p>\n
The 2017 Wimbledon semi-finalist is the first player in either the women\u2019s or men\u2019s singles brackets to be forced to quit due to coronavirus protocols.<\/p>\n
During a pre-tournament video conference on Saturday, Konta discussed how odd it is for her and her teammates to have to remain in a hotel for the next two weeks instead of at their house in the region. \u201cIt\u2019s strange in terms of the bubble existence. It\u2019s strange to drive past my house on the way to Wimbledon every day. I\u2019m like, Oh, OK, about a half-hour into the journey. That\u2019s strange. It\u2019s a little price to pay to be able to return to Wimbledon and compete again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s kind of like an all-inclusive cruise, that\u2019s what it feels like. I\u2019ve never been on a cruise, but that\u2019s how I imagine an all-inclusive cruise to be,\u201d Konta said.<\/p>\n According to the All England Club, the squad member displayed Covid-19 symptoms on Friday morning and underwent a Covid test, which revealed that he had the condition. On Tuesday, Konta was set to face Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic in the first round of Wimbledon. Wang Yafan of China will now fill the former\u2019s position after he failed to qualify.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Johanna Konta of Britain has had to pull out of Wimbledon because a member of her staff tested positive for\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":37789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1232,1943,389,202,250],"class_list":["post-17042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-britain","tag-johanna-konta","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}