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Collins, who fired his team this week, said he left the tournament site to buy supplements to fight his arthritis. The league’s general manager said the requirement to paste on the site was explained in an assembly the day before the games started.
By Christopher Clarey
While her Orlando Storm teammates were about to undergo a coronavirus check on Monday at Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia, Danielle Collins wasn’t even in the same condition.
She drove about two hours to Charlottesville, Virginia, where Collins said she had gone to buy supplements to help treat her rheumatoid arthritis.
The next day, Collins, a leading American player, was fired from Storm and anything else from the team’s world tennis season for violating the league’s fitness and defense protocols by leaving Greenbrier in the competition.
“I don’t think Danielle was looking to do something wrong, yet he puts us on a stage where you’d rather respect what you’re looking to do, so we may be able to help the other 150 Americans here safely.” Carlos Silva said. , the general manager of World Team Tennis, in a phone interview on Wednesday.
Collins, who reached the semi-finals of the 201nine Australian Open and ranks 51 on singles on the WTA Tour, harshly criticized Male No. 1 Novak Djokovic last month for complaining about Open’s plans to comply with strict fitness rules that can also force players to limit length on their teams.
“For people (maximum tennis players) who don’t have an entourage, our best friend has to start running again,” Collins said. “It would be wonderful if the most productive player in the world supported this option and didn’t spoil it for players and fans!”
But he insisted Wednesday that his position did not disagree with his behaviour on the World Tennis Team, saying he simply did not realize that he was not allowed to leave the station and that he had not seen written apple warnings forbidding it.
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