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Anisimova tests positive for COVID-19 - report

FILE PHOTO: Tennis - WTA Premier 5 - Italian Open - Foro Italico, Rome, Italy - September 16, 2020 Amanda Anisimova of the U.S in action during her second round match against Ukraine's Dayana Yastremska Pool via REUTERS/Clive Brunskill

American world number 30 Amanda Anisimova has tested positive for COVID-19, Tennis Channel reported on Friday.

The 19-year-old has not confirmed the result but she is not competing at the WTA tournament in Abu Dhabi.

In an Instagram post on Friday which included a crying emoji, she wrote: "I want to play."

The hard-hitting Anisimova is among a crop of rising American women making waves in the sport, a group that includes Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin, 22, and 16-year-old Coco Gauff.

Anisimova won her maiden tour-level title on the Bogota clay in April 2019 and reached a career-high ranking of 21 six months later.

(Reporting by Rory Carroll in Los Angeles, editing by Pritha Sarkar)

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