Tennis:Konta not sure if she should have taken COVID vaccine

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Britain's Johanna Konta said on Sunday she is still not sure if she should have taken the COVID-19 vaccine despite having to pull out of the Tokyo Olympics https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/britains-konta-pulls-out-tokyo-games-after-covid-19-positive-2021-07-13 after a positive test affected her preparati

Konta, who won the Nottingham grasscourt title in June, was forced to withdraw from Wimbledon a day before the Grand Slam got underway when a member of her team tested positive for COVID-19.

"It was a combination of feeling quite ill so I was sleeping or just existing for a few days," she told reporters ahead of the U.S. Open, which begins on Monday. Konta's compatriot Andy Murray has said players travelling around the world had a 'responsibility' to get vaccinated https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/murray-urges-fellow-players-get-vaccinated-2021-08-28.

 

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