“At Roland Garros, there was a COVID-19 epidemic, no one talked about it,” she told L’Equipe. “In the locker room, everyone got it and we said nothing… The whole locker room was sick.”
“I think there have been a few cases, and it was a tacit agreement between us,” Cornet added. “We are not going to self-test to get into trouble!
“Afterwards, I saw girls wearing masks, maybe because they knew [they might have it] and didn’t want to pass on. You also have to have a civic spirit.”
While the revelations drew plenty of criticism both online and in the press, they didn’t come as a shock for followers of tennis. Players had long been telegraphing signals that they were tired of ineffective bubbles and protocols that seemed to change weekly, they were done dialing into press conferences over Zoom, and they’d had enough of the social media hate and judgment that often flooded their mentions following a positive result.