The US Open, scheduled to begin on 31 August, will be the first Grand Slam to be played after the COVID-19 pandemic suspended the season in March.
JOHANNESBURG - World number one Novak Djokovic has said participating in the US Open would be an impossible task due to the “extreme” COVID-19 protocols in place for the tournament at Flushing Meadows.The suspension of the tennis season was last extended until the end of July but Djokovic, a three-times champion in New York, is not sure the tournament will go ahead.
“The rules that they told us that we would have to respect to be there, to play at all, they are extreme. We would not have access to Manhattan, we would have to sleep in hotels at the airport, to be tested twice or three times per week. World number two Rafa Nadal had also said he would not travel to the U.S. in the present circumstances.
“For me is very difficult to separate the status that the world is living from my real perspective on the world of tennis, no?” Nadal said this week.
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