Soon after it was revealed that world number 22 tennis player Benoit Paire tested positive for COVID-19, his name was removed from the US Open men’s draw. The US Tennis Association on Sunday announced that an unidentified player had withdrawn after testing positive for coronavirus. 

Paire’s name was removed from the US Open website’s official draw and replaced with that of 149th-ranked Spaniard Marcel Granollers, who is set to face Poland’s 108th-ranked Kamil Majchrzak in the first-round match.

French sports daily L’Equipe had earlier reported that world number 22 Paire had tested positive for COVID-19 in New York. The 31-year-old tennis player is asymptomatic and has been advised to follow state and tournament health and safety protocols, which requires him to be in isolation for 10 days, the US Tennis Association said. 

Contact tracing has been initiated to determine if anyone else must quarantine for 14 days as a result of being around the player involved.

L’Equipe said fellow French players Richard Gasquet, Gregoire Barrere, Edouard Roger-Vasselin, and Adrian Mannarino have been confined to their hotel rooms at the tournament until further notice.

News of the positive test comes after players have been practicing and playing a tuneup event, the ATP and WTA Western and Southern Open, usually staged in Cincinnati, in the same quarantine bubble where the US Open begins Monday without spectators.