Coco Gauff misplaced sense of scent from COVID-19, nonetheless ready for vaccine shot

Teen tennis sensation Coco Gauff stated she was imagined to get her first vaccine shot the identical week she bought COVID-19, which compelled her to drag out of the Tokyo Olympics and has left her with out her sense of scent.
“I’m just happy that I didn’t have really many symptoms. I was pretty much asymptomatic,” the 17-year-old American stated Thursday earlier than taking part in an exhibition match towards two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka on the Citi Open hard-court match. “I just had — still have — a loss of smell. But other than that, I’m A-OK.”
Gauff introduced by way of social media on July 18 that she had examined constructive for the coronavirus and would wish to take a seat out the Summer Games that started quickly thereafter. That was lower than two weeks after she reached the fourth spherical at Wimbledon for the second time in her younger profession.
The Twenty fifth-ranked Gauff made her Grand Slam quarterfinal debut on the French Open in June.
She stated the peripatetic nature of the skilled tennis tour, and the truth that she’s below 18, has made it robust for her to get vaccinated towards COVID-19.
“The real problem is just getting the dosages spaced out and, obviously, going from country to country is difficult,” Gauff stated.
“But,” she stated, “I’m going to get it as soon as I can.”
Her plan is to get her first vaccine dose after the match in Cincinnati that runs through the week of Aug. 16 and a second shot after the U.S. Open, which begins Aug. 30 in New York.
After getting the virus, Gauff stated, she went residence to Florida and, as quickly as she may, started working towards twice a day.
She is scheduled to face Jessica Pegula on Saturday in one other exhibition match on the match in Washington.
Gauff and Caty McNally gained the Citi Open girls’s doubles title in 2019.