Tennis fans are going to have to fret a bit more. Indeed, the Washington tournament, supposed to mark the resumption of the men's tennis circuit on August 13, has been canceled due to the scale of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. This was announced by ATP in an official statement released Tuesday.
The health situation linked to the Covid-19 epidemic in the United States and the closing of the borders with Europe pushed the organizers to resign themselves and to cancel everything. The women's tournament initially scheduled for August 3 to 9 will obviously not take place either.
The ATP & organizers of the @CitiOpen have announced the cancellation of the 2020 Citi Open.
- ATP Tour (@atptour) July 21, 2020It doesn't smell good for the US Open
“In the face of continuing uncertainties affecting event planning, the decision has been made to cancel the tournament,” organizers said in a statement, with the US Open set to start at the very end of August in New York.
But as you can imagine, this announcement does not bode well for the American Grand Slam, which is supposed to take place from August 31 to September 13, even if nothing has been done yet. For Viktor Troicki, questioned by the Serbian press, "it is not realistic to play anything now". “It's not official, but everything will probably be canceled,” he told Sportklub . We have been warned.
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