Corona rules at the US Open cause heads to shake

“The question is how many players are willing to accept these conditions,” said the tennis world number one on Serbian “Prva TV”. The hard court Grand Slam tournament is still scheduled for August 31st. “I had a phone call with the leaders in world tennis. The rules that we would have to accept to even play there are extreme,” explained the three-time US Open champion. “We wouldn’t have access to Manhattan, we would have to sleep in hotels at the airport and be tested two or three times a week,” said the “Djoker”. In addition, each player can only bring one person onto the tournament grounds. “That's really impossible. I mean, you need a coach, a fitness trainer and a physiotherapist.” The 33-year-old, who has already earned over $143 million in his career, mainly sees economic factors as the reason for the efforts to hold the event despite the corona crisis . Nadal is skeptical Rafael Nadal also announced this week that he would not travel to the USA under the current circumstances. The Spaniard also questioned whether tennis could start again when the pandemic still has large parts of the world in its grip. “For me it is very difficult to distinguish the status that exists in this world from the tennis world,” said Nadal. You have to act responsibly and be sure that the situation is safe enough. The USA leads the current Covid-19 numbers with over 1,9 million cases and over 109.000 deaths who died with or due to the coronavirus.

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Corona rules at the US Open cause heads to shake

For Novak Djokovic, the recently leaked Covid-19 measures that the organizers of the US Open in New York are planning are unacceptable.

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