The tournament in New York is scheduled for August 31 to September 13, but the prevalence of Covid-19 infection in the United States has not stopped, as nearly 60,000 infections were detected on Monday.
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“It is planned that the first tournament I will play after the break will be in Palermo. Then maybe in Prague, but it will depend on whether the quarantine is lifted or not. Tournaments in the USA are not planned yet, because it is dangerous to go there at the moment.” at a press conference opened Ostapenko.
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Gulbi is also concerned about playing in the USA, and his participation in the US Open may be blocked by his place in the ranking.
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“I would love to play in Challenger tournaments in the Czech Republic, where you can go for a month and play four tournaments on the spot. If there are several tournaments, then you can also afford to be quarantined. I can’t claim anything in the first weeks,” Gulbis explained. “The US qualification has been lifted, it’s just the main event. I think there’s a lot of unequal fiction. They’re asking the first centurion to decide on the whole tour. That way, the gap between the first and second centenary ranking points is widening.”
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On July 29 and 30, the Merks Cup Estonian-Latvian national team tennis competition will take place in Tallinn, at the Tondi tennis center, where the best eight tennis players and tennis players from the Baltic neighbors will face each other.
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Alona Ostapenko (WTA 41), Anastasija Sevastova (WTA 43), Ernests Gulbis (ATP 162) and Kāris Ozoliņš (ATP 1133) will play for the Latvian national team. This year, this quartet was at the core of the Latvian national team in the Federation Cup and Davis Cup matches.
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The professional tennis season will resume in August, but until then, tennis players will participate in various demonstration tournaments.
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