Roland Garros qualifiers already hit by at least two positivesDjokovic beats Diego Schwartzman, Halep takes women’s titleNovak Djokovic, who beat Diego Schwartzman, 7-5, 6-3, in Rome on Monday to win a record 36th ATP Masters title, heads for
Paris as worried as everyone else in the game that at least two players trying to qualify for the
French Open have tested positive for Covid-19.
The
US Open just about escaped from under the cloud of the pandemic in
New York, but a minor outbreak in the locker room at Roland Garros during qualifying this week has cast a pall over the final slam of the season, scheduled to start on Sunday against the backdrop of a rising curve in the virus throughout
France.