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Latvian tennis stars Alona Ostapenko and Ernest Gulbis are worried about participating in this year’s US Open.
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.
“For the time being, it is planned that the first tournament I will play in after a 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, ”Ostapenko revealed at a press conference on Tuesday.
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.
I would love to play in the Challenger tournaments in the Czech Republic, where you can go for a month and play four tournaments from the venue. If they are several tournaments, then you can also afford to be quarantined. In the first weeks, I can’t claim anything, ”Gulbis explained. “The US qualification has been revoked, it is just a main event. In my opinion, there is a very unequal invention of everything. They ask the first centurion to decide on the whole tour. In this way, the gap between the first and second hundredth ranking points widens. ”
It has already been reported that on July 29 and 30 in Tallinn, at the “Tondi” tennis center, the “Merks Cup” Estonian-Latvian national team tennis competition will take place, where the best eight tennis players and tennis players from the Baltic neighbors will face each other.
The Latvian national team will play in the games Alona Ostapenko (WTA 41), Anastasia Sevastova (WTA 43), Ernests Gulbis (ATP 162.) and Kāris Ozoliņš (ATP 1133). This year, this quartet was at the core of the Latvian national team in the Federation Cup and Davis Cup matches.
The professional tennis season will resume in August, but until then, tennis players will participate in various demonstration tournaments.
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