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The US Open tennis tournament will permit Russian and Belarusian players to participate, after Wimbledon faced sanctions from world tennis bodies for banning them.
The US Open will allow Russian and Belarusian players to compete at this year's championships under a neutral flag.
Wimbledon's move to ban them from the tournament which begins later this month prompted the men's ATP and women's WTA Tours to strip the grasscourt Grand Slam of its ranking points.
BERLIN: Ons Jabeur started her grass-court season with a win as she cruised past Karolina Muchova 6-3, 6-3 at the Berlin Open on Tuesday, while Andrea Petkovic delighted the home fans by upsetting Garbiñe Muguruza.Playing for the first time since a shock first-round loss at the French Open, the fourth-ranked Jabeur put in an assured performance as she saved all four of the break points she faced against her Czech opponent.The top-seeded Jabeur, who reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon last year, will next play US qualifier Alycia Parks.The Tunisian will also team up with the returning Serena Williams to play doubles in Eastbourne next week.“Pretty excited to play doubles with Serena,” Jabeur said. “When I got the news, I was over the moon.
Players from Russia and Belarus will be allowed to compete in the 2022 US Open under a neutral flag, the US Tennis Association announced Tuesday.
Players from Russia and Belarus will be allowed to compete in the 2022 US Open, but only under a neutral flag, the US Tennis Association announced Tuesday. The move comes after the Grand Slams, the International Tennis Federation and the ATP and WTA Tours all condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine, supported by Belarus. The USTA supported the ban of Russia and Belarus from international team competitions and the directive to have players from those nations compete under a neutral flag in other competitions.
The US Open will allow tennis players from Russia and Belarus to compete at Flushing Meadows in August, but Novak Djokovic could miss out due to Covid-19 rules. Russian and Belarusian players been competing under a neutral flag since Russia's invasion of Ukraine earlier this year. Ad/> However, they have been banned from playing in the UK this summer, including at Wimbledon, which starts on June 27.
:Russian and Belarusian players will be allowed to compete at the U.S. Open this year but only as neutrals, the United States Tennis Association (USTA) announced on Tuesday, a decision that stands in stark contrast to Wimbledon which banned them.