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  • Naomi Osaka earns assist after asserting break from sport at US Open

    Retired athletes voiced their assist for four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka on Saturday after she stated she would take a break from tennis having misplaced her enthusiasm for competitors.
    The world quantity three suffered a shocking defeat within the third spherical of the U.S. Open on Friday earlier than tearfully telling reporters she deliberate to take an indefinite break from the game.

    Naomi Osaka says “I honestly don’t know when I’m gonna play my next tennis match” after her third-round loss on the #USOpen:
    “I think I’m gonna take a break from playing for a while,” she added by tears.
    Hard to observe. I hope everybody can present some compassion. pic.twitter.com/TsXmiWwzEQ
    — Meredith Cash (@mercash22) September 4, 2021
    “I feel like for me recently, like, when I win I don’t feel happy. I feel more like a relief,” stated Osaka, months after publicly disclosing that she had suffered from melancholy.
    “Take all the time you need to recover, rest, and heal, @naomiosaka,” 12-time Grand Slam singles champion Billie Jean King wrote on Twitter on Saturday. “Sending you love and support.”

    Take on a regular basis it’s essential to recuperate, relaxation, and heal, @naomiosaka.
    Sending you like and assist.
    — Billie Jean King (@BillieJeanKing) September 4, 2021
    Retired American tennis professional James Blake applauded her resolution. “Please do what is best for you @naomiosaka,” he tweeted on Saturday. “We want to see your extraordinary tennis again, but more importantly, we want to see you happy.”
    Six-time Grand Slam winner Boris Becker responded to Blake in a quote retweet: “That’s right.”

    That’s proper https://t.co/j7E6KoJA3h
    — Boris Becker (@TheBorisBecker) September 4, 2021
    The 23-year-old has ushered in a brand new dialog round psychological well being in skilled sport after she dropped out of the French Open amid a public row over obligatory press conferences on the Grand Slam, saying they took too nice a toll on her psychological wellbeing.
    Osaka’s affect extends far past the court docket, as she introduced the Black Lives Matter protest to tennis’ worldwide platform a yr in the past, changing into a number one determine for athlete advocacy within the course of.
    “Good decision. Young, trying to figure out life, how to win consistently, and as a huge celebrity athlete is hard! Trying to also be a change maker too. Exponentially harder!” four-time Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter Michael Johnson wrote on Twitter.
    “If there was ever a need for an athlete to step away, this is it.”

  • Leylah Fernandez Stuns Naomi Osaka on the US Open

    Naomi Osaka, the defending ladies’s singles champion, was upset 5-7, 7-6 (2), 6-4, within the third spherical of the U.S. Open on Friday evening by Leylah Annie Fernandez, an unseeded 18-year-old from Canada.
    The 73rd-ranked Fernandez, a fast and dynamic left-hander, had by no means confronted Osaka, however she didn’t seem intimidated, clenching her fist after successful key factors and infrequently dictating play along with her topspin forehand.
    It was a memorable night for youngsters in Arthur Ashe Stadium. In the previous match, Carlos Alcaraz, a dynamic Spanish 18-year-old, eradicated the No. 3 males’s seed, Stefanos Tsitsipas, in a momentum-shifting thriller that got here all the way down to a fifth-set tiebreaker. That was the ultimate match of the day session and when the sector was cleared and the night-session crowd took their seats, Fernandez adopted Alcaraz’s lead, rallying to defeat the third-seeded Osaka.
    The upset got here on the identical courtroom the place Osaka grew to become a world star by shocking Serena Williams to win the 2018 U.S. Open. Osaka has since gained three extra Grand Slam singles titles, together with final yr’s Open.
    Osaka broke Fernandez’s serve at 5-5 within the second set with a backhand winner after which served for the match. She had not confronted even a break level at that stage however was unable to shut out the victory. Fernandez went on to win the primary 5 factors of the following tiebreaker, prompting Osaka to hurl her racket to the courtroom. Fernandez then evened the match at one-set apiece.
    “I guess I wanted to stay on the court a little bit longer, and I wanted to put on a show for everybody here,” Fernandez stated in her post-match interview. “One hour was just not enough for me on court.”
    Fernandez rapidly took the lead within the third set by breaking Osaka’s serve once more within the opening recreation and although Osaka started to search out her vary in her personal service video games, she couldn’t resolve Fernandez’s slower left-handed serve. Osaka didn’t disguise her frustration. After Fernandez hit a net-cord winner within the second recreation of the ultimate set to go up 40-15, Osaka took maintain of the ball and smacked it excessive into the stands, receiving a code-violation for ball abuse.
    Fernandez would face no break factors on her serve within the remaining set and when it got here time to serve for probably the most vital victory of her profession, she held at love. At 30-0, she hit a terrific backhand drop shot winner and on her first match level, Osaka misjudged a forehand and hit it broad.
    Arms up and smiling, Fernandez jogged ahead to the web for the handshake. “From the very beginning, right before the match, I knew I was able to win,” she stated.

  • Remnants of Hurricane Ida hit US Open, create chaos

    Even a retractable roof on the U.S. Open was no match for the heavy rain and wind because the remnants of Hurricane Ida carried to Flushing Meadows, flattening tree limbs and inflicting flooding across the match grounds, whereas forcing a match to shift from one court docket to a different after a delay of two 1/2 hours.
    “Crazy weather,” was the best way Eleventh-seeded Diego Schwartzman summed issues up after he managed to beat 2017 runner-up Kevin Anderson 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-4 of their interrupted contest to achieve the third spherical as Wednesday turned Thursday.
    The National Weather Service workplace in New York declared its first-ever set of flash flood emergencies within the area, subway stations and tracks turned so flooded that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority suspended all service and New York City put in place a journey ban till 5 a.m. ET Thursday for all non-emergency autos.
    Fans react to rain coming in by way of roof on day three of the U.S. Open (Photo: USA Today)
    Schwartzman and Anderson initially went out to start out their match at Louis Armstrong Stadium earlier than 7:30 p.m. however didn’t end till simply previous 1 a.m. at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Those are the one two arenas on the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center outfitted with covers that may be moved into place and permit competitors to proceed when Mother Nature causes issues.Usually, anyway.
    Armstrong, a 14,000-seat stadium that was up to date forward of the 2018 U.S. Open, was geared up with a naturally ventilated roof and the house purposely left between the concourse and the highest allowed the rain to get blown onto the court docket by robust wind. So people popped open umbrellas whereas sitting below the roof, and Anderson and Schwartzman have been halted at 5-all within the first set whereas employees dried the court docket. Play resumed, then was stopped once more early within the second set. The match then gave up on the concept of ending at Armstrong and determined to maneuver issues to Ashe as soon as the in-progress match there between Stefanos Tsitsipas and Adrian Mannarino ended.
    Wednesday’s final scheduled match in Armstrong, between Angelique Kerber and Anhelina Kalinina, was postponed till Thursday. Schwartzman had no real interest in that type of situation. “I was ready to play and I wanted to finish today, not finish tomorrow. You never know what can happen,” mentioned Schwartzman, a 5-foot-7 Argentine who reached the semifinals finally yr’s French Open and twice has been a quarterfinalist on the U.S. Open. “I was trying to push … to play tonight.”Then, since issues have been operating so merely and easily as it’s, Mannarino grabbed the third set in a tiebreaker that ended simply previous 11 p.m. to delay that match and, in flip, delay the continuation of Anderson vs. Schwartzman.
    On high of that, Tsitsipas headed off court docket for a bathroom break, as is his wont. Eight minutes elapsed earlier than the fourth set might begin, and Mannarino bought a bunch of tennis balls so he might hit some observe serves to maintain his shoulder unfastened. Tsitsipas returned to boos from spectators.At least issues have been expedited from there. Tsitsipas rolled by way of a 6-0 fourth set in a mere half-hour, and Anderson and Schwartzman wasted little time getting out on Ashe.

  • Sloane Stephens overpowers Coco Gauff at US Open; Naomi Osaka’s foe withdraws

    Three years in the past, a reporter requested Sloane Stephens to level out a youthful tennis participant most followers won’t have heard of but, somebody she thought may turn out to be a family title some day.
    Stephens paused to ponder, however not for lengthy, earlier than responding: Coco Gauff, then 14.
    Stephens had first met Gauff a number of years earlier and clearly knew what she was speaking about. The world would shortly uncover Gauff, too. The pair of associates met in an official match for the primary time on Wednesday night time on the US Open, and it was Stephens, the 2017 champion now ranked 66th, who pulled away for a 6-4 6-2 victory over Gauff, now 17 and seeded twenty first.
    Afterward, the pair met on the web for a heat hug, earlier than Stephens praised the participant, and particular person, Gauff has turn out to be.
    “I love Coco. I think everyone knows I love Coco. At the end of the match, I said, I love you.’ She’s such a great player and I feel so lucky to have seen her grow up and play since she was 8,” Stephens advised the Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd.
    “I know,” Stephens added, “there’s going to be great things ahead for her.” With the Ashe roof shut throughout a heavy downpour – a twister warning was in impact within the area – the thump-thump-thump of the rain created a bass beat that drowned out the standard sounds of a tennis match. It was so loud Stephens may barely hear the questions throughout her on-court interview.
    Coco Gauff, of the United States, returns a shot to Sloane Stephens, of the United States, through the second spherical of the US Open tennis championships, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
    Only one different courtroom at Flushing Meadows might be lined throughout dangerous climate, however even that was a difficulty Wednesday night, as a result of wind helped push rain by the house between the concourse and the retractable cowl at Louis Armstrong Stadium. So the match between two-time main finalist Kevin Anderson and Diego Schwartzman was delayed for almost a half-hour at 5-all within the first set whereas employees used air blowers to dry the taking part in floor.
    Scheduled for later in Armstrong was three-time Slam champ Angelique Kerber towards Anhelina Kalinina, with the winner taking up Stephens. And final in Ashe was French Open runner-up Stefanos Tsitsipas towards Adrian Mannarino, trying to be part of different males who moved on equivalent to No. 2 Daniil Medvedev and No. 5 Andrey Rublev.
    The circumstances didn’t matter in any respect to defending champion Naomi Osaka, who superior earlier within the day when her second-round opponent, Olga Danilovic, pulled out of the match due to what she mentioned was a viral sickness, however not COVID-19.
    Other previous main title winners Simona Halep, Garbine Muguruza and Victoria Azarenka moved on extra conventionally with straight-set wins. Muguruza subsequent faces Azarenka, who along with a pair of Australian Open trophies is a three-time runner-up on the US Open, together with when she misplaced to Osaka within the closing a 12 months in the past.Osaka hasn’t been overwhelmed in a Grand Slam match since dropping to Gauff on the 2020 Australian Open.
    And towards Stephens, Gauff did briefly show the various abilities that helped her to that win and others on huge phases, together with twice towards Venus Williams, and a run to the Roland Garros quarterfinals in June.
    But Stephens, fairly merely, was higher. From 4-all on the outset, she claimed eight of the remaining 10 video games, with a efficiency largely constructed with terrific placement of her serves and stinging forehands.
    Naomi Osaka, of Japan, acknowledges the group throughout her match with Marie Bouzkova, of the Czech Republic, through the first spherical of the US Open tennis championships, Friday, Aug. 30, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
    “The forehand,” she mentioned, “was key today.”
    Stephens, who was two factors from dropping to good buddy Madison Keys on Monday in a rematch of their 2017 closing in New York, received 39 of 49 factors she served – an 80% price – and saved the lone break level she confronted.
    More than a decade Gauff’s senior at age 28, Stephens additionally dealt with her opponent’s quicker serves adroitly, breaking thrice.
    Both walloped the ball throughout big-strike exchanges from the baseline, with enviable and unrelenting energy. The official stats confirmed they mixed for twenty-four winners and 44 unforced errors, however that latter designation appeared unfair to assign, given how a lot every was pressured to attempt to deal with from the opposite facet of the online.

  • Billie Jean King lauds Naomi Osaka for psychological well being stand

    Tennis nice Billie Jean King has praised Naomi Osaka for talking out on psychological well being points and her stand towards racial injustice.
    Japan’s Osaka withdrew from this yr’s French Open after being fined and threatened with expulsion for refusing to do media duties, which she mentioned had contributed to the despair points she had struggled with for years.
    The 23-year-old, a four-times Grand Slam champion, additionally pulled out of Wimbledon, resulting in a broader dialog about psychological well being in sport.
    Osaka was joined by King, mercurial Australian Nick Kyrgios and former American participant Mardy Fish for a dialogue hosted by Racquet Magazine on the eve of the U.S. Open.
    “Everyone loves you guys. They listen to you guys, and I think it’s great when you talk and talk about your feelings. Kids need that,” King, a number one determine within the marketing campaign for gender equality in tennis, advised Osaka.
    “When I used to be outed in ’81 for being homosexual, I misplaced all the pieces in 24 hours. You guys can speak about this stuff and also you’re celebrated. Other individuals have the identical points. But we couldn’t speak about it the best way you get to.
    “Every time I go to any place now I have to talk about mental health. Why? Because you guys talked about it. That’s fantastic progress.”
    The 77-year-old has up to now likened Osaka’s off-court stance to that of the Original Nine, a bunch of gamers led by King who fought tirelessly to begin knowledgeable ladies’s tennis tour, which led to the creation of the WTA in 1973.
    Osaka was lauded for supporting the “Black Lives Matter” marketing campaign as she highlighted racial injustice by carrying completely different face masks at her 2020 U.S. Open matches bearing the names of African Americans who died lately.
    “After my first Slam, I was supposed to be the good girl,” Osaka mentioned. “But now that I’m talking about stuff that bothers me, I think it’s confusing a lot of people. I honestly don’t know what people think about me.”
    In a social media submit on Sunday, Osaka mentioned she intends to have fun her personal achievements extra and won’t fear concerning the expectations others place on her as she prepares to start her U.S. Open title defence.Kyrgios, who has been punished by authorities for his on-court behaviour, mentioned he didn’t really feel the media cared about gamers’ well-being.
    But King, who received 12 Grand Slam singles titles, mentioned the game’s finiancial power wouldn’t have been potential with out the assist of the press.
    “In our generation we played for $14 a day and we played for more than ourselves,” she mentioned.”We solely had the standard media. So if we don’t get them to inform our story then we wouldn’t have what we’ve in the present day.”

  • US Open 2021 Live Streaming in India: When and the place to observe

    US Open 2021 Live Streaming: One on-court storyline outweighs all others: Novak Djokovic goals to make historical past in two important methods on the U.S. Open. He can turn into the primary man since Rod Laver in 1969 to win all 4 Grand Slam singles titles in a season and he can break the boys’s document of 20 profession majors he shares with Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.
    Djokovic’s challengers embrace a quartet of 20-something Slam runners-up looking for a primary main trophy: Medvedev, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Alexander Zverev and Matteo Berrettini.
    Federer and Nadal are accomplished for the 12 months with accidents, a part of a major listing of absentees that features 2020 champion Dominic Thiem and sisters Serena and Venus Williams.
    For the ladies, contenders embrace two-time champion Naomi Osaka, who returns to Grand Slam motion after a psychological well being break, and No. 1 Ash Barty. Although Barty had an underwhelming first spherical exit at Tokyo 2020, she received the Cincinnati Masters final week and can head into the US Open excessive on confidence. Naomi Osaka, then again, claimed the 2021 Australian Open, which can be performed on exhausting courtroom, and has received two of the final three US Open titles.
    The ladies’s competitors could be very aggressive with world No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka, Olympic champion Belinda Bencic, 2019 US Open winner Bianca Andreescu, Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist Elina Svitolina and fourth seed Karolina Pliskova within the operating.
    India’s problem within the singles ended within the qualifiers, with Prajnesh Gunneswaran dropping within the second spherical whereas Ankita Raina, Sumit Nagal and Ramkumar Ramanathan exited within the first. Doubles illustration, although, is anticipated with Sania Mirza in fray.
    The U.S. Open is the primary tennis main permitting followers at full capability for the complete two weeks because the Australian Open in January-February 2020.
    Schedule:
    Monday, August 30 – singles first spherical
    Tuesday, August 31 – singles first spherical
    Wednesday, September 1 – singles second spherical, doubles first spherical
    Thursday, September 2 – singles second spherical and doubles first spherical
    Friday, September 3 – singles third spherical
    Saturday, September 4 – singles third spherical and doubles second spherical
    Sunday, September 5 – singles spherical of 16 and doubles third spherical
    Monday, September 6 – singles spherical of 16 and doubles third spherical
    Tuesday, September 7 – singles quarter-finals and males’s doubles quarter-finals
    Wednesday, September 8 – singles quarter-finals and ladies’s doubles quarter-finals
    Thursday, September 9 – ladies’s singles semi-finals and doubles semi-final
    Friday, September 10 – males’s singles semi-finals
    Saturday, September 11 – ladies’s singles remaining, males’s or blended doubles remaining
    Sunday, September 12 – males’s singles remaining, ladies’s doubles remaining
    Where to observe US Open 2021 stay in India?
    Select US Open 2021 tennis matches can be telecast stay in India on the Star Sports Select 1, Star Sports Select 1 HD, Star Sports Select 2 and Star Sports Select 2 HD TV channels.
    Live streaming of US Open 2021 in India can be accessible on Disney+ Hotstar.
    You may also observe newest information, outcomes and stay updates of the US Open proper right here at IndianExpress.com.

  • US Open glimpse of future sans Serena Williams, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal

    It’s been practically 1 / 4 of a century since Serena Williams, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal all sat out the identical Grand Slam tennis event.
    That adjustments subsequent week, when the U.S. Open will begin at Flushing Meadows with none member of that distinguished and dominant trio.
    Williams, whose fortieth birthday is in September, withdrew on Wednesday, becoming a member of Federer, who turned 40 this month, and Nadal, who’s 35, on the sideline due to accidents. Williams’ older sister, 41-year-old Venus, additionally pulled out of the sphere Wednesday.
    Everyone is aware of they will’t play perpetually, in fact, and that this grand period will finish in some unspecified time in the future. Now followers, different gamers, the excursions, tournaments, sponsors, TV executives and the remainder of the world are getting a glimpse of what the probably-not-too-distant future holds for tennis.
    Is that as daunting because it sounds?
    “We have been asking ourselves that question for many years. They’ve defied the odds with their legacy and their dominance of the sport well beyond other champions. Without question, our sport does go through the passing of the baton,” U.S. Open event director Stacey Allaster stated in a phone interview from New York after Serena’s announcement however earlier than Venus’.

    Not the very best information everybody. I’m becoming a member of @serenawilliams @RafaelNadal and @rogerfederer on the injured listing. It’s nonetheless going to be an incredible US Open & many due to the @usta for the wild card. I used to be so wanting ahead to it, but it surely was not meant to be this 12 months. I will probably be again! pic.twitter.com/s0PRgdSSx2
    — Venus Williams (@Venuseswilliams) August 25, 2021
    “The athletes that are here, they’re ready for it. We’re starting to see who those potential next Grand Slam champions will be. We’ve gone through this cycle before, and our athletes have risen to the occasion and they’ve stood on all champions’ shoulders and taken the sport to the next level.”
    That definitely will be stated of the Williams sisters, Federer and Nadal, who all managed to grow to be international superstars and stay related for long gone the standard timeframe in tennis. Not for the reason that Australian Open in 1997, the 12 months Venus Williams made her main debut on the French Open, has any Grand Slam event been contested with out no less than one of many 4.
    Because the appropriate hamstring she tore at Wimbledon in late June is just not sufficiently healed, Serena once more will be unable to pursue what could be a twenty fourth Grand Slam singles title, tying Margaret Court for essentially the most within the sport’s historical past. (As it’s, Serena holds the Open period mark of 23, as a result of greater than half of Court’s complete got here earlier than professionals had been permitted to enter main tournaments in 1968).
    Since coming back from maternity depart in 2018, Serena has reached 4 Slam finals, going 0-4. Her 2017 Australian Open title whereas pregnant at age 35 makes her the oldest lady to win a significant singles championship within the Open period. Ken Rosewall set the lads’s mark of 37 on the 1972 Australian Open.

    Federer, the primary man to succeed in 20 Slam trophies, is finished for 2021 as a result of he wants a 3rd operation on a proper knee that was repaired twice final 12 months. Nadal, who matched his rival’s complete by getting his twentieth main on the 2020 French Open, can also be finished for the season, troubled by recurring left foot ache.
    What nobody is aware of for certain, proper now, is when or, in truth, if every will return.
    In Serena’s social media submit Wednesday about her withdrawal from the U.S. Open, she closed with this pledge: “I’ll see you soon.”
    In Federer’s announcement 10 days earlier, he spoke about wanting “to give myself a glimmer of hope, also, to return to the tour in some shape or form.”
    Nadal, the youngest of the group, vowed final week that he nonetheless has “a couple of beautiful years” left in his profession.“I’ve at all times thought, every 12 months, as their careers acquired into the twilight years,  each time we had them
    right here within the U.S. Open, we had been extremely lucky,” Allaster stated.
    “They have done so much for our sport and for this tournament.”
    Now, although, there will probably be much more consideration on Novak Djokovic as he tries to finish the primary calendar-year Grand Slam by a person since Rod Laver in 1969 and break his tie with Federer and Nadal by claiming a twenty first main title.And additional consideration on reigning U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka as she returns to Grand Slam motion for the primary time since pulling out of the French Open, then Wimbledon, for a psychological well being break.
    “We are disappointed for our fans. How could they not be disappointed? They’re fan favorites, without question. They are just such exceptional champions,” Allaster stated about Serena, Federer and Nadal.
    “At the same time, the show goes on.”

  • Serena Williams withdraws from US Open on account of torn hamstring

    Serena Williams has withdrawn from subsequent week’s US Open after the American stated on Wednesday that her torn hamstring has not fully healed forward of the ultimate Grand Slam of the 12 months.
    Williams, a six-time winner at Flushing Meadows, has had an injury-marred season and limped out of her first-round match at Wimbledon in tears because of the leg damage.
    The 39-year-old, who has been on the hunt for an elusive twenty fourth main, skipped the Olympics in Tokyo and in addition opted out of the Cincinnati Masters, a tune-up occasion to the U.S. Open.
    “After careful consideration and following the advice of my doctors and medical team, I have decided to withdraw from the U.S. Open to allow my body to heal completely from a torn hamstring,” Williams wrote in a press release on Instagram.

    Serena Williams has withdrawn from the US Open citing her hamstring damage from Wimbledon.
    Her IG assertion: pic.twitter.com/PelyPAaMeo
    — Tumaini Carayol (@tumcarayol) August 25, 2021
    “New York is one of the most exciting cities in the world and one of my favourite places to play — I’ll miss seeing the fans but will be cheering everyone from afar.”
    Williams is the most recent huge identify to drag out of the match after reigning males’s champion Dominic Thiem and four-times winner Rafa Nadal ended their 2021 season on account of accidents.
    The most important draw of the U.S. Open will get underway in New York on Monday.

  • Naomi Osaka to play at US Open, ‘Big Three’ lead males’s area

    Naomi Osaka will defend her title on the U.S. Open, organisers mentioned on Wednesday, after she withdrew from this 12 months’s French Open and Wimbledon on psychological well being grounds.
    Japan’s Osaka surprised the tennis world when she stop the claycourt main in Paris in May following her first-round match after being fined and threatened with disqualification when she refused to attend obligatory post-match press conferences.
    The world quantity two, who mentioned she had social nervousness, additionally skipped Wimbledon however is scheduled to play on the Tokyo Olympics after which in Montreal subsequent month.
    Osaka will likely be a part of a ladies’s area on the U.S. Open that may even embrace world primary Ash Barty, who lifted her second main title at Wimbledon earlier this month.
    A complete of 15 main winners, together with Simona Halep and Garbine Muguruza, are scheduled to characteristic within the ladies’s area at Flushing Meadows.
    In the boys’s part, former champions Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal — at the moment tied for the boys’s document of 20 Grand Slam singles titles — will resume their quest for extra silverware in New York.
    World primary Djokovic, contemporary from his third main triumph of 2020 at Wimbledon, is aiming to turn out to be the primary man since Australia’s Rod Laver in 1969 to finish a calendar 12 months sweep.
    Another former champion, Andy Murray, who’s at the moment ranked 104, did not make the principle draw however stays the primary participant on the alternate record.
    The U.S. Open will likely be held with 100% fan capability from Aug. 30 to Sept. 12.

  • Djokovic can’t hit US Open line choose – there gained’t be any

    Novak Djokovic doesn’t want to fret about by chance hitting a U.S. Open line choose with a tennis ball between factors this yr as a result of there gained’t be any line judges — chair umpires would be the solely on-court officers at that Grand Slam match’s matches.
    The U.S. Tennis Association and the game’s two main skilled excursions, the ATP and WTA, introduced Monday that Hawk-Eye Live digital line-calling can be used for all competitors courts on the U.S. Open in 2021 and at seven of the 9 US Open Series occasions previous it.
    A yr in the past, the USTA relied on the automated system and distributed with line judges on the U.S. Open aside from matches on the two important courts in Flushing Meadows, Arthur Ashe Stadium and Louis Armstrong Stadium.
    During a fourth-round match at Ashe towards Pablo Carreño Busta final September, Djokovic was defaulted from the U.S. Open for inadvertently hitting a line choose within the throat with a ball after dropping a recreation.
    It was a surprising and abrupt cease to the No. 1-ranked Djokovic’s 29-match successful streak and his bid so as to add to his Grand Slam title assortment.
    After dropping a recreation to path 6-5 within the first set, Djokovic angrily swatted a ball behind him together with his racket — and it went instantly on the line choose.
    Tournament referee Soeren Friemel dominated the match — and Djokovic’s participation within the 2020 U.S. Open — would finish there, saying on the time: “We all agree that he didn’t do it on purpose, but the facts are still that he hit the line umpire and the line umpire was clearly hurt.”

    The Australian Open, which Djokovic gained in February for his 18th main championship, didn’t have any line judges on any courts.
    Not surprisingly, Djokovic mentioned he accredited.
    “I actually am in favor of technology. I think it’s proven to be very accurate in this particular instance,” he mentioned at Melbourne Park when requested about ending using line judges. “I don’t see a reason why we need the line umpires, to be honest, if we have technology like this.”
    The US Open Series tournaments that can rely totally on digital line-calling this yr are the occasions in Atlanta; Washington; Toronto; Montreal; Cincinnati; Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and Cleveland.
    The Cincinnati match was held at Flushing Meadows final yr proper earlier than the U.S. Open as a part of a doubleheader of types organized due to the coronavirus pandemic and so was performed underneath the identical setup.
    The USTA mentioned Monday that “upwards of 314,000 calls” had been made by Hawk-Eye Live throughout the two occasions.
    The U.S. Open’s important draw begins Aug. 30.