Doubts, doubts and more doubts. That is the only certainty that the current relevance of tennis throws at every moment, a curious paradox that could be staged in the resumption of the circuit with the Washington ATP 500 next August 14. And it is that the American tournament showed last Monday the player prelist who will attend the event, where players from the noble zone of the ranking are listed as Daniil Medvedev, Stefanos Tsitsipas, David Goffin or the Spanish Roberto Bautista, among others.
But what about Novak Djokovic, Rafa Nadal and Dominic Thiem? It seems that the first three swords of the world ranking are not very much for the work of returning to the tournaments on the hard court tour that will start in the American capital, since none is listed in the Washington prelist. For obvious reasons, it won't be Roger Federer, He continues to recover from a second knee operation that will keep him off the track throughout this season.
List of Washington ATP 500 Entries.
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If these great absences are confirmed, the doubts could be transferred to more players for the rest of the American tour, with the stops of the Cincinnati Masters 1000 (from August 22) and the US Open (August 31-September 13) as main courses. This week, the ATP has held meetings with the players and will also do so with their coaches, to hear the different opinions on the celebration of this tour, whose final destination depends on the United States Tennis Federation and the governments. “We will know something of this extremely complex situation in the next two weeks. The final decision rests with the USTA. We depend on national governments and the evolution of the disease “, explained Andrea Gaudenzi, president of the ATP, in Sky Sports. In a few days we will have the answers …