Franco Davin had a very bad time with the coronavirus and talked about his battle with the infection. The 50-year-old Argentine coach started feeling unwell while he was in Miami. Soon it was clear that something was not right.
Davin now coaches Kyle Edmund and previously worked with Juan Martin Del Potro, Gaston Gaudio and Fabio Fognini.
At first it was considered that could be a heatstroke, but Davin underwent a test and his environment confirmed that the South American coach was tested positive.
“At the end of June I had been working a lot on the court for many hours. At this time of the year in Miami it’s hot. One day I began to feel insolated. I thought: “I am going to have to stop one day, get out of the heat. Just have a day to do something off the court and I took it as a day without so much sun. The next day I did the normal job and started feeling tired. That afternoon I stayed home and the next morning I took the test. That was Thursday 25th June. I felt vey bad, like I had a bad flu, with that body ache, that you don’t want to get up from. They normally give the test here in 48 to 72 hours and just coincided with the weekend. I was from Thursday Thursday to Monday without the result, but it gave the feeling that it could be a flu”, said Davin.
Davin suspected that he contracted the coronavirus from someone who did not know that he was infected.
“I work with many boys of 18, 20 and 22 years, who are apparently asymptomatic and those who are transferring the virus. At the time I went to do the test I called all the people I had been with and none had the symptoms or the virus. It gave me the feeling that I did not have it, but that weekend I started to feel loss of taste and smell. I was already feeling a little better physically, but on the fourth or the fifth day I started coughing and shortness of breath. That’s the worst. In my situation it was what made me most desperate because you read everything that happens. I tell you what I felt: that I was dying. I was four days away from going one way or the other”, said Davin.
