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NEW YORK – Defending champion Rafael Nadal will skip the U.S. Open because of the coronavirus pandemic, putting on hold his bid to equal Roger Federer’s men’s record for Grand Slam titles.
Nadal explained his decision in a series of tweets sent in Spanish and English on Tuesday.
“The situation is very complicated worldwide, the COVID-19 cases are increasing, it looks like we still don’t have control of it,” Nadal wrote.
The 34-year-old Spanish player called the tournament, which should start on August 31 in New York, “a resolution I never wanted to take,” but added that he would “rather not travel.”
Ash Barty, the world’s top-ranked player, has already announced that she will not compete in New York. Listing the U.S. Tennis Association list indicated Tuesday that Bianca Andreescu, the 2019 women’s champion, is in the box, at least for now; players can retire until the start of the game, but have not mentioned Nadal.
Professional tennis tours have been suspended since March due to the COVID-19 outbreak, and the women’s match resumed on Monday in Palermo, Italy. The first male occasion of the tour is expected to take place by the end of this month.
Nadal’s plan to skip the U.S. Open He arrived here some time after the Madrid Open, scheduled for September, was cancelled due to the pandemic.
“We know that the reduced tennis calendar is barbaric this year after 4 months stopped with no play,” Nadal wrote on Twitter. “I understand and thank for the efforts they are putting in to make it happen.”
In last year’s last men’s mystery at Flushing Meadows, Nadal beat Daniil Medvedev 7-5, 6-3, 5-7, four-6, 6-four in four hours and 50 minutes. That gave Nadal four US Open titles and a total of 19 at all Grand Slam tournaments, just one of Federer’s careers.
Federer will also be absent from the U.S. Open, due to two operations on his right knee this year.
The last Grand Slam tournament was played without Federer and Nadal at the 1999 US Open, four years before Nadal made his debut in one of the sport’s 4 most prestigious events.
The USTA has given indications of its goal of moving forward with the US Open, despite peaks in instances across the United States, noting in a press release last week: “New York State remains one of the safest places in the country, considers the COVID-19 virus”.
This is true lately: the region was a primary hot spot in the United States at the beginning of the pandemic, as much as a construction site in the United States. S. Open was used as a transient hospital.
New York City hospitals won more than 18,000 COVID-19 patients in mid-April, when infections increased and more than 750 patients with the disease died daily in hospitals and nursing homes. These figures were reduced in May and hospitalization rates and new positive coVID-19 cases have been strong since June.
There are considerations about travel, as Nadal pointed out.
The USTA is planning a doubleheader of sorts at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The Western & Southern Open, a hard-court tournament normally played in Cincinnati, was moved to the U.S. Open site this year because of the pandemic and is scheduled to be played Aug. 20 to 28.
This is intended to be followed through the US Open. Two weeks after the U.S. Open final On 13 September, the French Open is expected to start in Paris, having been postponed to begin in May.
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