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Tennis Player Frances Tiafoe Tested Positive for the Coronavirus

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Frances Tiafoe Tested Positive for the Coronavirus

Frances Tiafoe was scheduled to face Tennys Sandgren on Saturday but after testing positive for the coronavirus he withdrew from the All-American Team Cup tennis tournament.

The No. 81-ranked Tiafoe took to social media and wrote that he had been training in Florida and had tested negative there as recently as a week ago.

Young American tennis star Frances Tiafoe has tested positive for COVID-19 and has withdrawn from an Atlanta tennis event.

After defeating Sam Querrey on Friday, Tiafoe was showing symptoms so was tested after the match.

Since testing positive for COVID-19 he has begun the recommended quarantine protocol and will be retested next week.

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