 What's going on everybody welcome back to some breaking news and Bianca Andrescu has been forced to withdraw from the Italian Open Due to the Italian government's COVID protocol and rules that might put her in isolation before the tournament so instead she's withdrawn Let's go over listen to her statement So this is the statement that she brought out on Instagram saying although I have tested negative following my isolation period in Madrid And having been back in full training the last few days the Italian government rules put me at risk of being isolated again If I traveled to Italy so unfortunately I have to withdraw from the Italian Open this year So there you have it. She might have had to go into isolation again Of course she pulled out of the Madrid Open because she contracted COVID-19 Before the tournament on the flight over so she had to pull out of Madrid and now she's had to pull out of Rome Andrescu has not played a clay court tournament on almost two years She played the French Open in 2019 but was injured during that tournament So she hasn't played and we don't have many tournaments left before the French Open of course It's being played at the end of May so we're gonna have to see what tournament She can actually play before the French Open this year as a warm-up tournament. There's a tournament in Belgrade, Serbia There's a tournament in Parma, Italy, and there's also a tournament in Strasburg in France All WTA 250 events before the French Open so she can still play some warm-up events But they're gonna be a smaller event than the Italian Open and of course the Madrid Open last week Where all the best players played but let me know down in the comments below What do you think Andrescu is gonna do with the French Open? Do you think this is gonna really hurt her chances of maybe making it to the second week? So Bianca Andrescu, she's ruled out of the Italian Open because the Italian government want her to isolate