Et says a lot about the scope of Kristina Mladenovic’s verbal outburst that after her second round from the US Open basically nobody talked about sport. On a normal day, her memorable match against Russian Varvara Gracheva would have been enough to fill the sports pages of the press. At the score of 6: 1 and 5: 1 from their point of view, Mladenovic experienced an almost unprecedented system crash. In the end, she lost the game 6: 1, 6: 7 (2: 7), 0: 6 despite four match points and then vented her anger at how she was being treated in the corona safety bubble in New York.
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“I’ve never been in such a condition. I am completely at the end of my tether. It’s a nightmare what we’re going through here, ”complained the Frenchwoman, in tears. The 27-year-old was one of the direct contacts of her compatriot Benoit Paire, who tested positive for the corona virus. The organizing American tennis association USTA therefore imposed particularly strict security measures on her. Among other things, she was not allowed to leave her room in the players’ hotel, only for training sessions and matches on the tournament grounds, but not move freely there either. “All I want is to be free again,” she said. “I would love to share a lot about what’s going on here. The way they treat us is absolutely horrible. “
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