The protocols for Roland Garros 2020
After how well the US Open turned out in terms of protocols, the Roland Garros organization has published its own a few days after the start of the preliminary phase matches. Accommodation, medical tests, accompaniment during the tournament or training place are some of those mentioned in his statement.
-Accommodation during the two weeks of competition:
The tournament organization has reported that all players will stay in two exclusive hotels for these athletes, rejecting the possibility that tourists can stay in said facilities. These hotels are the Pullman Paris Tour Eiffel and the Novotel Paris Tour Eiffel. But … how will the distribution of these facilities be done? Well, very easy, the 60 best players will stay at the Pullman, while the rest of the players, the tennis players who play doubles and those in the preliminary phase, will stay at the Novotel.
-Protocols before the start of the tournament:
The tennis players who will play the preliminary phase next week are required to arrive in Paris four days before the competition begins. All of them will undergo two PCR tests, one upon arrival and another after 48 hours, to show that they do not have the virus in their body. In this way, Carlos Alcaraz, Pedro Martínez Portero, Mario Vilella, Bernabé Zapata or Tommy Robredo, among others, will have to arrive in France in the next few hours.
For the players who will play the main draw, they have the obligation to appear three days before the start of the tournament. To do this, as with the players from the previous phase, they will have to pass two controls. A PCR test upon arrival at the hotel and another test 48 hours later. Then, as already reported a few months ago, the tournament organization will test the tennis players every five days if they continue in contention during the competition.
-Company of the players during their stay:
If a player tests positive for coronavirus, the alarms would automatically go off, and that tennis player will have to spend a 14-day quarantine in his hotel room, and therefore, will be eliminated from the tournament. In addition, the tournament organization issued a statement advising players not to share rooms in order to avoid multiple infections.
If a member of the player’s coaching staff tests positive for COVID-19, the player would immediately need to be tested. If it tests positive, it would obviously be eliminated, while if it came out negative it would be under monitoring. If a tennis player has shared a room with a positive, they will automatically be eliminated as the social distancing rule is not respected. For this reason, the tournament advises players to sleep alone in their rooms.
As with the US Open, only two accreditations will be allowed for singles players. For doubles players, qualifiers and juniors, there will only be one.
-Training:
“At the Roland Garros facilities it is only possible to train if the player has a match that day. If he did not have it, he would have to go to the Jean Bouin center, a center enabled so that tennis players can train without any problems.
