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Sports News of Thursday, 2 July 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Novak Djokovic, wife test negative for COVID-19

Novak & Jelena Djokovic at the Adria Tour. (Photo by ANDREJ ISAKOVIC/AFP via Getty Images Novak & Jelena Djokovic at the Adria Tour. (Photo by ANDREJ ISAKOVIC/AFP via Getty Images

World number one tennis star, Novak Djokovic and his wife, Jelena, have tested negative for COVID-19.

His media team broke the news on Thursday, 10 days after announcing they had contracted the disease.

Recall that apart from the couple, a host of tennis stars contracted the respiratory illness during last month's exhibition series(Adria Tour) he organized in Serbia and Croatia amid the pandemic. No social distancing was observed at the matches in Belgrade and Zadar, Croatia.

“Novak Djokovic and his wife Jelena are negative for COVID-19. That was shown by the results of the PCR tests that both had in Belgrade,” his media team said in a statement.

Djokovic was the fourth player to come down with the virus after participating in the matches in Belgrade and Zadar. The others were three-time Grand Slam semifinalist Grigor Dimitrov, Borna Coric and Viktor Troicki.

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