WASHINGTON (AP) – The hard-hitting tournament in the nation’s capital that intended to mark the official return pass of men’s professional tennis in the middle of the pandemic was abandoned on Tuesday, however, the Open-rate crowd immediately declared the focal point. “in no way impacted” his Grand Slam event.
The Citi Open, which began due to qualifying on August 13, was canceled because tournament director Mark Ein said: “Too many unresolved external apple issues are too large, adding various foreign restrictions, in addition to being concerned about fitness and defense trends.
Coronavirus times have higher positions in the United States.
Describing the cancellation of the Washington tournament as “disappointing,” ATP President Andrea Gaudenzi said, “Right now, a great friend is not very present, there are big points at stake that are beyond our control.”
Professional men’s and women’s excursions have been suspended since March due to the COVID-1 outbreak and are making plans to return to action next month. The first occasion of the recently announced 2020 maximum edition later due to the game is a clay-court tournament in Palermo, Italy, which was born on August 3, and WTA spokeswoman Amy Binder said Tuesday that “the provisional schedule for the tour remains Follow.” time.”
“Our current technique of the season is to produce opportunities wherever it is imaginable without connection to travel restrictions,” Binder wrote in an email, “so that, as giant apple players as imaginable, they have the strength and preference to travel to compete during this exclusive and challenging period.”
From now on, the week of August 10 includes women’s tournaments in Lexington, Kentucky, where Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam singles champion, announced tickets, and in the Czech Republic. But there’s no official male competition.
With the ATP’s close in Washington, where Nick Kyrgios was last year’s now-defunct champion, the first choice for men to play sanctioned matches may be the occasion of the Masters point played in Cincinnati, which moved to the U.S. Open site at Flushing Meadows. , August 22.
This will have to be followed through the U.S. Open, where the big draw game will begin on August 31 without large apple viewers. The next Grand Slam tournament may be the French Open on clay, which postponed its start from beyond May to the end of September due to the pandemic.
After the ATP and Citi Open announced the verdict of abandoning plans to play this year, the American Tennis Association issued a saying that “understands the justification” of the cancellation.
The USTA continued: “This resolution has no influence on the U.S. Open or the West and South Open. The USTA will create a safe and regulated environment for players and all other tournament stakeholders, mitigating fitness risks.
A warning has been issued about the USTA’s big plans for a “bubble” to highlight players and others to secure her two-week Grand Slam tournament: an American tennis player, Danielle Collins, was expelled from World TeamTennis for breaking COVID from the league. 1 nine protocols.
WTT CEO Carlos Silva said Collins, a 26-year-old player who was a semi-finalist at the 201st Australian Open, left the season that hosts all of the league’s three-week season and left the state of West Virginia.
“The protocols were installed in position and repeatedly communicated the fitness and defense of our players, coaches and employees,” Silva said.
Collins played for the Orlando Storm at WTT, which combined his nine group stations and placed them in the similar spot for the season that began on July 12 and ends on August 2.
The WTT is never very affiliated with WTA or ATP professional tours, so it is able to maintain its season during the break.
This may also be the reason why smaller, more independent exhibitions were organized, adding a network led by Williams coach Patrick Mouratoglou, called Ultimate Tennis Showdown and playing at his academy in France. UTS on Tuesday announced plans for the games for the next two weekends.
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