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Tennis player Alex de Minaur has pulled out of the Tokyo Games after becoming the first member of Australia’s Olympic team to test positive for Covid-19.
De Minaur, Australia’s top men’s player and ranked 17th in the world, has been in London after playing at Wimbledon, where he suffered a first-round exit in the singles.
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