FILE PHOTO: Tennis - Adria Tour - Novak Tennis Centre, Belgrade, Serbia - June 12, 2020 Serbia's Viktor Troicki, Nenad Zimonjic, Dusan Lajovic, Novak Djokovic, Austria's Dominic Thiem, Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov and Germany's Alexander Zverev pose for a photo with the ballkids, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) REUTERS/Marko Djurica/File Photo
(Reuters) - Days after a handful of the world's leading tennis players hugged and high-fived on court in front of packed stands and partied together in carefree fashion some - including world number one Novak Djokovic - were struck down by the COVID-19 virus.
As a cautionary tale, it could hardly be more stark.
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