Categories: Tennis

Bencic also resigns from the US Open and will be in Rome

The Switzerland Belinda Bencic, eighth player of the world, and that last year he reached the semifinals, has joined the list of casualties in the US Open women's draw, than begins next August 31, although he has assured that he will participate at the tournament in Rome.

“I wanted to tell you that I have made the difficult decision not to participate in the US Open in New York,” Bencic announced on his Twitter account. “I will be back to Rome next month “. The Rome Internationals are disputed from September 14.

Three of the four semifinalists of the 2019 edition have decided not to travel to New York. Before Bencic, defending champion Bianca Andreescu of Canada and Elena Svitolina of Ukraine decided to skip the US Open, which is scheduled to run from August 31 to September 13.

The number one in the world, Australian Ashleigh Barty, Dutch Kiki Bertens (7), Latvian Jelena Ostapenko and Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova, who won the tournament in 2004, have also said no to Flushing Meadows. In all these cases, the coronavirus pandemic has been the reason.

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