‘Deeply sorry’ Novak Djokovic apologises for hosting tennis event ‘too soon’ amid Covid-19 pandemic

World No.1 Novak Djokovic, who examined positive for Covid-19, apologised by saying he was “deeply sorry” for internet hosting an exhibition Tennis match ‘too soon’. Djokovic, the fourth tennis participant after Grigor Dimitrov, Borna Coric and Viktor Troicki to test positive for Covid-19 additionally admitted that he and organisers “were wrong” to go forward with the occasion.

Djokovic’s health coach Marco Panichi and Dimitrov’s coach Christian Groh have additionally examined positive.

“The moment we arrived in Belgrade we went to be tested,” Djokovic stated in a press release on Tuesday, including that he was not exhibiting any signs. “My result is positive, just as Jelena’s (wife), while the results of our children are negative.

“I am extremely sorry for each individual case of infection. I hope that it will not complicate anyone’s health situation and that everyone will be fine. I will remain in self-isolation for the next 14 days, and repeat the test in five days.”

 

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— Novak Djokovic (@DjokerNole) June 23, 2020

“We believed the tournament met all health protocols and the health of our region seemed in good condition to finally unite people for philanthropic reasons.

“We were wrong and it was too soon.”

The organisers stated that the rest of the Adria Tour had been cancelled, the two-day occasion on July 3-Four in Banja Luka, Bosnia and the deliberate exhibition match with Bosnian Damir Dzumhur in Sarajevo on July 5.

Serbia has 13,092 registered circumstances and 263 useless because of the pandemic however each Serbia and Croatia eased lockdown measures weeks earlier than the match and gamers weren’t obliged to look at social distancing guidelines in both nation.

The match witnessed packed stands in the course of the opening leg in Belgrade, gamers hugging on the web, enjoying basketball, posing for photos and attending press conferences collectively.

Djokovic, 33, organised nights out in Belgrade for the gamers and photos and movies of him dancing with the opposite members at his occasion had been posted on social media.

“Prayers up to all the players that have contracted Covid- 19,” stated Nick Kyrgios, retweeting a video of the gamers dancing shirtless in Belgrade.

(With Reuters inputs)