{"id":286431,"date":"2023-09-05T18:35:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T18:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=286431"},"modified":"2023-09-05T18:35:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T18:35:42","slug":"mystery-illness-deemed-as-the-us-open-bug-spreads-around-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/tennis\/mystery-illness-deemed-as-the-us-open-bug-spreads-around-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery illness deemed as &apos;the US Open bug&apos; spreads around tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Mystery illness deemed &#8216;the US Open bug&#8217; spreads around this year&#8217;s tournament &#8211; with one player saying she &#8216;feels like a zombie&#8217; and others struggling with sniffs and coughs<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Persistent coughing, sneezing and sniffing can be heard throughout matches\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span>Ons Jabeur described feeling like a &#8216;zombie&#8217; due to flu-like symptoms last week<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>DailyMail.com\u00a0provides all the latest international sports news\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A bug appears to be spreading around at this year&#8217;s edition of the US Open, with a certain number of players either suffering shocking upsets or being forced to retire due to illness ahead of the start of the tournament&#8217;s closing stages this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tunisian tennis star Ons Jabeur, 29, told reporters after her second round win over Linda Noskova on Thursday that she felt unwell during the match and struggled to bring her A-game onto the court due to persistent coughing and other syndromes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m a zombie because I have a flu,&#8217; said this year&#8217;s finalist at Wimbledon. &#8216;I&#8217;m taking a lot of medicine.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Jabeur &#8211; the world&#8217;s No. 5 seed &#8211; added that she &#8216;basically took every medication&#8217; recommended by the tournament&#8217;s doctors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her run at Flushing Meadows ended over Labor Day Weekend when No. 23-ranked Zheng Qinwen, of China, caused an upset in straight sets (6-2, 6-4).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/05\/18\/75086853-12483647-image-a-21_1693934814793.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Tunisia&#8217;s Ons Jabeur said she felt like a &#8216;zombie&#8217; after going down with illness similar to the flu<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/05\/18\/75087529-12483647-image-a-22_1693934876708.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Dominic Thiem, of Austria, showed signs of illness during his second round loss to Ben Shelton<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/05\/18\/75087527-12483647-image-a-23_1693934880781.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Petra Kvitova, of Czech Republic, complained of stomach pain before her second round match<\/p>\n<p>And just like Jabeur, other players have fallen victim to the so-called &#8216;US Open bug&#8217; since the tournament started at the USTA Billie Jean King National Center on August 28.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Iga Swiatek, the women&#8217;s defending champion and World No 1, said before her defeat by Jelena Ostapenko that she wasn&#8217;t sure if the illness was Covid-related.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It would be nice if those players who feel bad would wear masks or something like that,&#8217; she said. &#8216;I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s something related to Covid, but usually at sporting events like this, these things can spread easily.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I try to be careful and attentive, take care of my health.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>On August 30, tennis journalist Ben Rothenberg tweeted about illness among the media covering the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I can tell you people in the press room and player lounge sure are coughing and sniffling a lot,&#8217; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Finland&#8217;s 24-year-old Emil Ruusuvuori had to declare forfeit before his first-round match due to an unspecified illness.\u00a0Dominic Thiem, of Austria, withdrew during the second set of his second-round match on Wednesday after looking unwell while leaning onto the net. It was later revealed that the 30-year-old was suffering from a stomach issue by <span>The New York Post<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was reportedly heard saying during his match against Ben Shelton that he felt &#8216;completely f***ed&#8217; and &#8216;so s***&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/05\/18\/75087563-12483647-image-a-25_1693935092831.jpg\" height=\"178\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>US player Tenny Sandgren, 32, openly revealed he had the &#8216;us open bug&#8217; on Twitter last month<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/05\/18\/75088499-12483647-image-a-27_1693936766704.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sandgren was knocked out of the US Open last month when losing during a qualifying round<\/p>\n<p>Czech Republic&#8217;s Petra Kvitova also reported pain in her stomach before having to face Caroline Wozniacki on Wednesday, according to Tennis World. The 33-year-old ultimately lost in straight sets, 7-5 7-6.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wozniacki herself acknowledged the ill health hitting players last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I haven\u2019t been spending much time on site,&#8217; she said. &#8216;I come to practice and play my matches. I try to hydrate and stay healthy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I feel pretty good. I usually stay away from people that look sick anyways, but I haven\u2019t seen many people in the locker room not feeling well. Hopefully, people stay healthy.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I got the us open bug.. in a way still feels like I&#8217;m in the tournament but at home,&#8217; said Tennys Sandgren, who was eliminated during the competition&#8217;s qualifiers, tweeted on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Def a bug going around at the Open,&#8217; he added in a separate post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Poland&#8217;s Hubert Hurkacz, 26, also showed signs of illness on the court on Thursday and sought treatment from the tournament&#8217;s medical staff before ultimately falling to Jack Draper, according to\u00a0<span>The New York Times<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During matches, persistent sniffing, coughing and sneezing, as well as other signs of illness, were heard from within the crowd and on the court.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/05\/18\/75088341-12483647-image-a-26_1693936405796.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>US tennis great John McEnroe disclosed that he caught COVID-19 early on during the US Open<\/p>\n<p>Players have also been carrying tissues in their racket bags, as shown by US Open footage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, is that tennis-great-turned-analyst John McEnroe disclosed that he had tested positive for COVID-19 on the second day of the tournament in August.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m watching the US Open from home &amp; can&#8217;t wait to get back to work soon,&#8217; McEnroe told <span>ESPN<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tournament organizers fear that McEnroe&#8217;s diagnosis and the spread of troubling symptoms among players are the results of the COVID Pirola variant expanding, which experts have described as a health issue.<\/p>\n<p>Players, who share many facilities among each other and stay not too far away from one another, are not required to test for COVID at the US Open, according to <span>The New York Times<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Fans aren&#8217;t asked to provide proof of vaccination, wear masks, or test at stadium entry in Queens either.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/article-12483647\/Mystery-illness-deemed-Open-bug-spreads-years-tournament-one-player-saying-feels-like-zombie-struggling-sniffs-coughs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mystery illness deemed &#8216;the US Open bug&#8217; 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