Simona Halep: "This year is going to be canceled"

The long stop on the professional circuit has been officially extended until mid-July due to the pandemic that has affected the whole world. The leaders of world tennis hope that the summer on American hard court can be saved, so as to regularly play the US Open at the end of August. New York City, the city that hosts the last Slam of the season, is dealing with over 149,000 positive cases.

After the cancellation of Wimbledon, for the first time since the end of the Second World War, now the next big tennis event of the season to be in danger under the blows of the COVID-19 epidemic is the US Open, scheduled at the National Tennis Center of Flushing Meadows in New York from August 30th to September 13th.

According to Simon Briggs of the Daily Telegraph, the scenario on which the USTA would be working is that of a closed-door tournament, which could mean giving up the ticket office on the more than 700,000 spectators who flock to Flushing Meadows during the two weeks, but would save at least one part of the advertising revenue and most of the television revenue.

World Number two Simona Halep believes there are chances where the entire season will be called off. “For the worst-case scenario in my head is this year is going to be canceled,” she said. “I’m sure we are going to pass this period, if we listen and if we stay safe at home. But for the moment the break is going to be longer and July. My longest break was three weeks until this break.

I don’t really have that feeling to know how is it after such a long break with playing. I don’t know what to expect. But the most important thing in game are the legs. I have to keep running and kept my muscles activated if I move well on the court tennis is going to be okay,” the former World number 1 said.

from Tennis World USA https://ift.tt/34sI2gm