Italian tennis player Fabio Fognini
has tested positive for COVID-19, the national tennis federation
said Wednesday.
Sanremo-born Fognini, 33, currently ranked 12 in the world, came
out positive after a swab was administered during the Sardinian
Open in Cagliari.
Fognini's most successful surface is clay, upon which he has won
eight of his nine ATP singles titles, most notably at the 2019
Monte-Carlo Masters, as well as having reached the quarterfinals
of the 2011 French Open.
Together with Simone Bolelli, Fognini won the 2015 Australian
Open doubles championship, becoming the first all-Italian men's
pair to win a Grand Slam title in the Open era.
Fognini is marriedto, and has a two-year-old son with, Flavia
Pennetta, from Brindisi, a retired player who won the 2015 US
Open singles title.
Fognini is the latest in a string of sports stars in Italy to
get the virus, including soccer legends Cristiano Ronaldo and
Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
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