Roger Federer targets tournament comeback in Qatar next month
February 02, 2021 23:24 ISTThe 20-time Grand Slam champion said he preferred a smaller tournament where he “wouldn’t be in the spotlight too much and the stress is also a little less.”
The 20-time Grand Slam champion said he preferred a smaller tournament where he “wouldn’t be in the spotlight too much and the stress is also a little less.”
Nagal has been awarded a wild card entry into the hard court major and he will come to know about his opponent when the draw is announced on Thursday.
The World No. 2 opts out of the first match of the ATP Cup in Melbourne due to a stiff lower back.
The World No. 1 Serb defeated Denis Shapovalov in the group stages of ATP Cup 7-5, 7-5, in Melbourne.
Nagal, who does not give up easily, suffered a rather tame 2-6 2-6 defeat in the USD 320775 ATP250 event.
Williams has been stalled on 23 major singles titles since the 2017 Australian Open, when she was two months’ pregnant with now-three-year-old daughter Olympia.
The American teenager defeated Jil Teichmann 6-3, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (5) at the WTA’s Gippsland Trophy.
The 11th-seeded Pavlyuchenkova has been a quarterfinalist in three of the last four years at the Australian Open.
More than 1,000 players and officials went into a two-week quarantine from Jan. 14 when the first of 17 flights chartered by Tennis Australia landed in Melbourne and Adelaide.
Williams said she'd been crossing off the 14 days of quarantine on a calendar, having spent the time with her three-year-old daughter Olympia.
Murray is listed to play an indoor tournament in Biella starting Feb. 15, the Italian Tennis Federation said Wednesday.
Bopanna was on one of the three flights out of a total of 17 Tennis Australia-arranged chartered planes, that landed in Melbourne with positive cases on board.
All players arriving in Australia were required to undergo two weeks' quarantine along with their support staff.
The announcement comes a little more than a week after Murray said he tested positive for COVID-19 shortly before he was due to board a charter flight to Melbourne.
Paula Badosa, a 23-year-old who reached the fourth round at last year's French Open, wrote Thursday on Twitter that she received her test result for COVID-19.
More than 1,200 players, coaches, staff, officials and media have arrived on 17 charter flights since last Thursday to prepare for the Australian Open, which starts Feb. 8.
The ITF announced Monday that the international men’s tennis team event will run from Nov. 25 to Dec. 5, with 18 countries participating in six groups of three.
2016 champion Angelique Kerber, who is among the 72 players doing hard quarantine for 14 days, spent her birthday in quarantine on Monday.
As many as 47 players were earlier sent into hard quarantine after four coronavirus cases were detected on two charter flights that was transporting them to the country along with coaches and officials.
The positive test came from a passenger who was not a member of the playing contingent, Australian Open organizers said.
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