Greece ATP Cup player Michail Pervolarakis, who recently played in Melbourne and has been to community events, has revealed he’s tested positive for COVID-19 after travelling from Australia to South Africa.
According to a Herald Sun report Tennis Australia has confirmed that the 24-year-old tested negative for the coronavirus on Tuesday, February 9, when he flew out of Melbourne.
Pervolarakis posted on his personal Instagram account that he was asymptomatic.
Herald Sun says it’s unclear exactly when the 24-year-old left Melbourne, but he posted on his personal Instagram account that he was asymptomatic.
“After a 24-plus hour travel day from Australia to South Africa I’ve been diagnosed positive to COVID-19,” Pervolarakis posted.
“I am completely asymptomatic at the moment and will have to quarantine in an isolation facility in Potchefstroom.
“I am not a person that complains, but I feel that I need to express my disappointment with the conditions we are in.”
Pervolarakis’s teammates in the ATP Cup last week were world No. 6 Stefanos Tsitsipas – who is into the last 16 at the Australian Open – Petros Tsitsipas and Markos Kalovelonis.
Tsitsipas’ father, Apostolos, was Greece’s team captain.
Pervolarakis is ranked 461 in the world in singles and did not compete in the Australian Open.
During his stay in Australia Pervolorakis has been to a few Greek community events in Melbourne . He was at the Pancretan Brotherhood’s vasilopita cutting gathering and at Stalactites. His teammates in the ATP Cup last week were Stefanos Tsitsipas –Petros Tsitsipas and Markos Kalovelonis. Tsitsipas’ father, Apostolos is Greece’s team captain