the Tournament will be missing many players, including Rafael Nadal and Stan Wawrinka (second and 17th numbers of a world rating), Elina Svitolina and Kiki of Bertens (fifth and seventh racket of the world, respectively). Tennis players don’t want to risk the health, despite the fact that the organizers of the US Open has taken unprecedented security measures.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova noted that to cancel the trip to new York was hard, since she is 16 or 17 years never missed a tournament “Grand slam”.
I weighed the pros and cons within a month. I was straining the whole situation in General, I would not feel comfortable even in a restricted area, in the so-called bubble – quoted Pavlyuchenkova Tennis Majors. It’s hard to say where safe for now. I think anywhere on it and pandemic. But in Europe, I feel better. I can’t imagine spent four weeks in new York with my team, considering all constraints. Besides the question of quarantine on return to Europe is still not removed.
Pavlyuchenkova, who serves on the Board players in the WTA, said that after consultation it was decided not to cancel the season, not to chase tennis in crisis. Players were given the choice.
meanwhile, after the failure of two players from the top 10 Russian Andy Murray got a place in the main draw of the US Open. The athlete is going to participate in the tournament and already started trainings on the cover of “hard”.
