Tennis player Benoit Paire, after being confirmed with coronavirus: “I tested positive for COVID-19 for the 250th time”

French tennis player Benoit Paire, 32, 46 ATP, will miss the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tournament of 2022, after being tested positive for coronavirus and going into quarantine, the Sports Gazette reports.

Having reached the end of his patience due to the coronavirus, Benoit Paire jokingly said it was the 250th time he has tested positive for COVID-19.

“Greetings. My name is Benoit Paire and I tested positive for COVID-19 for the 250th time. Honestly, I don’t cope with this anymore. How do I feel? Because of the coronavirus I have a red nose, but due to quarantine periods spent in a hotel room I’m not mentally well at all. Last year was terrible, and now I’m starting exactly the same,” Benoit Paire wrote on Twitter.

“I want to make one thing clear. I’m 100% for the vaccine, but let’s live the pre-COVID-19 lives. Otherwise, I don’t see any meaning anymore,” Benoit Paire concluded.

After being tested positive for the first time at the US Open in 2020, then at the tournament in Hamburg, a few weeks later, Benoit Paire was forced to endure a 14-day quarantine ahead of the 2021 edition of the Australian Open.strong

At the time, Benoit Paire was negative, but on the plane he flew to Melbourne he was also a positive person.

Subsequently, Benoit Paire spent another day in isolation over the 14, after an employee of the hotel where he was quarantined was also found infected with COVID-19.

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