Chosen by the captain Sebastian Grosjean to play doubles with his friend Nicolas Mahut against the Ecuadorian duo Gonzalo Escobar/Diego Hidalgo Saturday, Pierre-Hugues Herbert received a second piece of good news on Thursday. The Prime Minister Jean Castex announced the lifting of the vaccination pass from March 14, which means that the Frenchman, not vaccinated, will be able to play Roland-Garros in May, as Novak Djokovic. A relief for P2Hespecially happy to see a possible end to this pandemic.
Pierre-Hugues Herbert speaks before the Davis Cup
“I remain extremely nostalgic for the old format”
Like his friend Mahut, Herbert remains very attached to the old formula. “For my part, I am very very happy to play again in France. I have been extremely sad for the past three years. On the one hand because it had been canceled for a year, on the other hand because I hadn’t had the same emotions as in the past. I am one of those players who are still in their career and who experienced what the Davis Cup was like before the changes three years ago. I will really enjoy this meeting. It’s a chance to be able to go back a little to what it was in the past. I remain extremely nostalgic for the old format. I regret the decisions that were made. We can only regret when we know what it was.“
“I am very happy to be able to play Roland-Garros”
“Yes that is the good news today. I am very happy to be able to play Roland-Garros. I am very happy for everyone. I think we all went through a pretty complex period, vaccinated or not. If these decisions were taken by the government, the figures are good. We are potentially getting out of this pandemic a bit. I strongly hope so. I am ready for anything, a lot of things can still happen. I am especially sad that by potentially coming out of this pandemic a little, we are suffering from what is happening in Ukraine. It is a very sincerely complicated period. I didn’t live like some people. I’m only 30 but in the last 30 years I don’t feel like I’ve been through what we’ve been through over the past two years. It’s something we all go through. I’m already happy that ‘potentially’, we’re getting away from the covid subject a little bit.“
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