Kyrgios reached desperately and floated a forehand winner down the line to break Nadal’s serve and lead 3-1. Australian Nick Kyrgios pulls out of 2020 US Open due to coronavirus pandemic Kyrgios calls on fellow tennis players to work together during health crisis ‘I’m sitting out for … all of you. Kyrgios kick-started his 2020 season with a 6-4 7-6(4) win over Jan-Lennard Struff in Australia's opening ATP Cup tie. ----- … Aussie stars Nick Kyrgios and John Millman have been snubbed as tennis made a bold call that ignored their fears about COVID-19.The US Open tennis championships will go ahead as scheduled in New York in August but without spectators, officials confirmed overnight.After weeks of uncertainty surrounding the tournament — which is being staged in the epicentre of the US coronavirus crisis — New York Governor Andrew Cuomo formally gave the event the green light.“The @usopen will be held in Queens, NY, without fans from August 31 to September 13,” Cuomo announced on Twitter.The New York leader said the US Tennis Association (USTA) would take “extraordinary precautions” to protect players and staff during the event.Those safety protocols included robust testing, additional cleaning, extra locker room space, and dedicated housing and transportation, Cuomo added.The decision had been anticipated after reports on Monday said the USTA’s plans for the tournament had received support from the ATP and WTA Tours.The ATP/WTA Cincinnati hardcourt event — the Western & Southern Open — will also be staged at the USTA’s Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing as a lead-in tournament.The USTA opted to move the tournament to New York in order to minimise travel for players taking part in both tournaments.USTA chief Mike Dowse said the US Open would be held in the “safest manner possible, mitigating all potential risks”.Several leading players have expressed reservations about the prospect of playing a tournament in New York, with world number one Novak Djokovic the most vocal critic.Djokovic has said the proposed safety measures and restrictions on the numbers of support staff allowed for each player were problematical.“We would not have access to Manhattan, we would have to sleep in hotels at the airport, to be tested twice or three times per week,” Djokovic said.

Sometimes it’s also not about noble concepts like sportsmanship or honouring the game. Eventually he did, holding his serve, but it was a lot of hard yakka just to stay in the match.What followed went against both the early momentum and basic probability. Here they looked like suicide missions: five of them in the first set won him just a single point, and after 36 minutes Nadal had taken it.It usually pays to not read much into the preliminaries at blockbuster matchups like this, but a stadium announcer had the bright idea of asking the crowd who they were barracking for just before the players’ arrival. Nadal unleashed his full armoury. Obviously Covid, but also with the riots, together we need to overcome these challenges before tennis returns in my opinion. The talented and frequently unpredictable Kyrgios finished the season ranked 30 giving him his 5th straight season in the top 35. The 24-year-old rose to number 20 in the world earlier this year after reaching the fourth round of the Australian Open, but dropped slightly after pulling out at Del Ray Beach.The rise comes after a first round exit at the opening Grand Slam of the year in 2019. On 8 January, Kyrgios was awarded a wildcard into the 2014 Australian Open, where he won his first-round match against Benjamin Becker in four sets.