5:36 AM ET World No.1 Novak Djokovic should put his hand up and accept responsibility after three players tested positive for coronavirus while participating in his Adria Tour exhibition tournament, Briton Dan Evans said on Monday. Grigor Dimitrov, a three-time Grand Slam semifinalist from Bulgaria, announced on Sunday he had tested positive for the coronavirus.
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12:39 PM ET Associated Press The ATP men’s tennis tour says it is continuing to “plan and adjust” its precautions and protocols related to the coronavirus pandemic with an eye to its planned Aug. 14 resumption of competition. The tour issued a statement Monday following word that two top-35 players tested positive for COVID-19 after
11:01 AM ET ESPN News Services Novak Djokovic will be tested for the coronavirus, his media team said Monday, after two tennis players ranked among the top 40 in the world have tested positive for COVID-19 after participating in the Serbian star’s charity tennis exhibition series. Additionally, five players at Serbia’s biggest soccer club have
6:52 AM ET Australian Nick Kyrgios has labelled the decision to go ahead with the Adria Tour as “boneheaded” after Borna Coric became the second tennis player to confirm that he tested positive for the coronavirus on Monday. The exhibition event in Croatia, organised by world No. 1 Novak Djokovic, was cancelled on Sunday after
3:14 PM ET Associated Press Grigor Dimitrov said Sunday he has tested positive for COVID-19, leading to the cancellation of an exhibition event in Croatia where top-ranked Novak Djokovic was scheduled to play. Dimitrov, ranked No. 19 and a three-time Grand Slam semifinalist, is the highest-profile current player to say he has the virus and
3:57 PM ET Associated Press There might be wheelchair tennis competition at the 2020 US Open, after all. The U.S. Tennis Association acknowledged Friday it should have consulted wheelchair athletes before announcing their events at Flushing Meadows were being canceled — and now is willing to change its stance. USTA spokesman Chris Widmaier said in
11:32 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Tennis authorities suspended Venezuelan referee Armando Belardi for two years and six months on Friday for not reporting approaches to him to alter match scores. Belardi was approached twice in 2018 by unidentified parties, the Tennis Integrity Unit said. The investigation found that Belardi did not alter the
11:17 PM ET Tennis Australia have offered their support to Dylan Alcott over his disappointment at the wheelchair events being cut from the U.S. Open and said they were optimistic of running a full programme at January’s Australian Open. Australian Alcott, who has won 10 Grand Slam wheelchair singles titles including two at Flushing Meadows,
3:45 PM ET Novak Djokovic, the No. 1-ranked player in tennis and president of the ATP Player Council, is less reluctant to play the US Open now that USTA officials have provided a clearer look at the safety precautions designed to lower the risk of players and others contracting the coronavirus. The USTA on Wednesday
2:02 PM ET “This is crazy. I’m excited.” w That was the expression from Serena Williams, the most accomplished women’s player of the Open era, as the USTA revealed its plans to hold the Western & Southern Open and the US Open in conjunction over a 24-day “bubble” period beginning Aug. 19. The plan has
Jun 17, 2020 ESPN News Services Electronic line-calling will be used instead of line judges for US Open matches at all courts except the two largest arenas, and singles qualifying and mixed doubles, junior and wheelchair competition are being eliminated entirely. There also will be three ball people instead of six at courts other than
Jun 18, 2020 Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — A statue of African American tennis legend Arthur Ashe on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, has been vandalized with the words “White Lives Matter.” Photos show the base of the monument tagged with white spray paint and the words “White Lives Matter” as well as the initials
7:00 AM ET Australian Paralympic tennis champion Dylan Alcott has slammed the omission of the wheelchair tournament from the US Open, calling it “disgusting discrimination.” Alcott, who won the 2015 and 2018 wheelchair singles titles at Flushing Meadows and is the reigning doubles champion, said players were not consulted and posed no greater health threat
2:53 PM ET Associated Press Two-time major champion and former No. 1 Simona Halep says she does not “currently plan to play” at the 2020 US Open. Halep added in a statement emailed by her representative to the AP on Wednesday that her stance “is not set in stone.” Two-time major winner Simona Halep has
10:42 AM ET ESPN News Services Serena Williams says she will play in this year’s US Open tennis tournament. The 23-time Grand Slam champion announced her intentions in a taped video message revealed Wednesday by the USTA. “I really cannot wait to return in New York and play the US Open 2020,” said Williams, 38.
8:00 AM ET espnW Staff Venus Williams was just a teen when she said it. She has spent the next 23 years proving it. “Everything’s different about me. Just face the facts.” Those words came before her powerful and athletic game led her to the No. 1 ranking in women’s tennis. They came before she
3:34 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com American tennis star Coco Vandeweghe feels like she is weeks, if not months, away from being in prime match condition. With her San Diego-area gym still shut down because of local lockdown restrictions in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2017 Australian and US Open semifinalist has managed to get
2:29 PM ET Associated Press A World TeamTennis player or coach who tests positive for coronavirus when arriving for the three-week 2020 season will be dropped from the league without pay. Someone testing positive once competition has started would be held out for the rest of the season but still be compensated on a prorated