Sickness forces tennis star's vaccine backflip

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World fig 2 Aryna Sabalenka said she got vaccinated against COVID-19 aft having to miss past month's Indian Wells tournament due to the fact that she contracted the caller coronavirus.

The Belarusian, speaking connected the eve of the season-ending WTA Finals successful Guadalajara, Mexico, had antecedently expressed interest astir the vaccines, saying she was disquieted astir however rapidly they had been produced and which 1 mightiness beryllium the champion for her.

"I deliberation I'm wide close present due to the fact that successful Miami I did the vaccine, Johnson & Johnson," the 23-year-old told reporters.

"Hopefully, I'm harmless due to the fact that I don't privation to enactment successful quarantine immoderate more. It's not a batch of fun."

Sabalenka said she could not determination for 4 days aft investigating affirmative past month.

"I stayed successful the country for 10 days. I was doing immoderate workout there, but it wasn't enough," she said. "I didn't person taste, I didn't person smell. Wasn't truly an astonishing time."

Sabalenka is the apical effect astatine the WTA Finals aft world fig 1 Ash Barty decided not to question to Mexico.

She volition look Spain's Paula Badosa successful her archetypal lucifer connected Thursday.

The WTA Finals, contested by the world's apical 8 singles players and 8 doubles teams, was relocated to Mexico from Shenzhen owed to Covid-19 question restrictions successful China.

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