{"id":180394,"date":"2021-12-27T00:18:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T18:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=180394"},"modified":"2021-12-27T00:18:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T18:48:15","slug":"atp-cup-2022-denis-shapovalov-tests-covid-19-positive-on-arrival-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/12\/27\/atp-cup-2022-denis-shapovalov-tests-covid-19-positive-on-arrival-in-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Cup 2022: Denis Shapovalov tests COVID-19 positive on arrival in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Sydney, Dec 26 (AFP):<\/strong>\u00a0Canada&#8217;s Denis Shapovalov has announced he has tested positive for\u00a0<span class=\"t-out-span\">COVID-19<\/span>\u00a0after arriving in Sydney for the ATP Cup.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 22-year-old is one of the first overseas players to arrive in Australia and is part of Canada&#8217;s team for the team-based tournament in Sydney from 1-9 January, ahead of the Australian Open at Melbourne starting on 17 January.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shapovalov played last week at the World Tennis Championship exhibition event in Abu Dhabi, where he beat Rafael Nadal in the third-place playoff match.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nadal also tested positive for the\u00a0coronavirus\u00a0after playing at the tournament, as did Tokyo Olympic gold medalist\u00a0Belinda Bencic and Tunisian Ons Jabeur.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former world No 10 Shapovalov said on social media he is in isolation and experiencing only minor symptoms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Hi everyone, just wanted to update you that upon my arrival in Sydney, I tested positive for COVID,&#8221; Shapovalov said. &#8220;I am following all protocols including isolation and letting the people who I&#8217;ve been in contact with know.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Right now I am experiencing minor symptoms and look forward to getting back on the court when it safe to do so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All players have to return negative tests 72 hours before flying to Australia, as well as undergo testing once in arriving in the country and isolate whilst awaiting results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney, Dec 26 (AFP):\u00a0Canada&#8217;s Denis Shapovalov has announced he has tested positive for\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0after arriving in Sydney for the ATP Cup. The 22-year-old is one of the first overseas players to arrive in Australia and is part of Canada&#8217;s team for the team-based tournament in Sydney from 1-9 January, ahead of the Australian Open at Melbourne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-180394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}