France ace on US Open bubble: “It’s disgusting”

“I have never been in such a state. I'm completely at the end of my strength. “It’s a nightmare what we’re going through here,” complained the 27-year-old in tears after her second-round defeat against Russian Varvara Gracheva. “All I want is to be free again.” Kristina Mladenovic Mladenovic is one of the contacts of her compatriot Benoit Paire, who tested positive for the coronavirus, which is why the US Tennis Association imposed particularly strict security measures on her. She is not allowed to leave her room in the hotel and is only allowed to go to the tournament grounds for training and matches, but is also not allowed to move around freely there. A negative test every day “All I want is to be free again,” Mladenovic continued: “We have to fight for our freedom. I'd love to share a lot about what's going on here. It's absolutely disgusting how they treat us. But I don’t want it to be an excuse for my defeat.” Mladenovic had already looked like the sure winner against Gracheva in the second set when the score was 5:1, but then she collapsed completely and lost 6:1, 6:7 (2:7), 0:6 despite four match points. Mladenovic starts the doubles competition with the Hungarian Timea Babos on Thursday; the duo won the Australian Open in January. “I have the impression that we are prisoners or criminals.” Kristina Mladenovic Mladenovic explained that what she and other contact persons were going through was “unacceptable”: “We have no freedom of movement, no identity, nothing. I have the impression that we are prisoners or criminals. For the slightest movement we have to ask permission, whether we have the right to do so, even though we are tested every day and have had 30 negative tests.”

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France ace on US Open bubble: “It’s disgusting”

The French tennis player Kristina Mladenovic has strongly criticized the security concept of the US Open.

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