Three players have caught the swine flu. All of them are doubles players. The pair of Travis Parrott and Filip Polasek are believed to have the virus, as well as Michael Mertinak who plays with Frantisek Cermak.
The tournament became aware of the situation when four ballkids were told to stay home after they were suffering from ‘flu-like’ symptoms:
Mertinak, aged 29, and Polasak, 24, were sharing a hotel room in London for the tournament while Parrott, 28, was Polasek's doubles partner. Mertinak is said to be preparing to fly home in the next couple of days.
They all went out at the second round stage of the men's doubles last week, while Mertinak withdrew from the second round of the mixed doubles because he was feeling unwell.
Last week several ball boys and girls were sent home with flu symptoms but there does not appear to have been any further outbreak of illness, according to an All England Club spokesman.
Let’s hope this is just a few isolated incidents and not an ATP outbreak.
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oh no! my precious Filip and Travis. I hope they are OK/
they should sue Wimbledon for unsanitary comditions
I guess we will see if anyone else who played in the tournament comes down with this in the upcoming weeks.
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