{"id":16521,"date":"2020-08-13T15:40:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T10:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=32933"},"modified":"2020-08-13T15:40:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T10:10:52","slug":"2004-champion-svetlana-kuznetsova-adds-to-the-list-of-withdrawals-from-the-us-open-due-to-covid-19-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/2004-champion-svetlana-kuznetsova-adds-to-the-list-of-withdrawals-from-the-us-open-due-to-covid-19-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"2004 Champion, Svetlana Kuznetsova adds to the list of withdrawals from the US Open due to Covid-19 concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"qodef-post-heading\">\n<div class=\"qodef-post-image\"><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">The women\u2019s draw has already been hit with a spate of high-profile withdrawals headed by current world number one Ashleigh Barty.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"qodef-post-image\"><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Elina Svitolina and Kiki Bertens, who are also in the current top ten have pulled out as well, as has Julia Goerges and 2011 US Open champion Sam Stosur. <\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Now, Svetlana Kuznetsova can be added to that list, along with Barbora Strycova, who reached the Wimbledon semi-final last year.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"qodef-post-image\"><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u201cDue to an <\/span>unfavorable<span style=\"text-transform: initial\"> situation caused by Coronavirus, and therefore the inability get together all my team I made a difficult decision to refuse to participate in Cincinnati and the US Open,\u201d Kuznetsova announced on social media.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"qodef-post-image\"><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u201cI feel very sad, because I have been waited for these tournaments so much, but the pandemic changes all plans. <\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">I hope the situation will be more positive by the next tournaments\u201d, she added.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"qodef-post-image\"><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Further, due to COVID-19 concerns another significant absence from the 2020 US Open is 19 time Major Champion, Rafael Nadal. Besides this loss, Flushing Meadows will be missing its 5 time champion in Roger Federer as well, who has shut down his 2020 season due to injury.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The women\u2019s draw has already been hit with a spate of high-profile withdrawals headed by current world number one Ashleigh Barty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":37381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[476,202,335],"class_list":["post-16521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp","tag-tennis","tag-us-open"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}