Former No. 1 Rafael Nadal says he’s “not scared” of the Zika virus as he prepares in Brazil – the center of the viral outbreak – for this week’s Rio Open tennis tournament and the city’s Olympics in less than six months.
Nadal won Olympic gold in the Beijing Olympics, but missed London with an injury.
He is the top-seeded man in the tournament and fellow Spaniard David Ferrer is No. 2, and both on Monday said they were confident the tournament was doing all it could to control the mosquitoes that spread the virus.
Ferrer says he’ll be wearing long sleeves and long trousers when he goes out socially in the morning and evening.
He says: “I’ll try to take those precautions, but I’m not obsessed about it.”
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