{"id":12005,"date":"2020-06-20T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/whiny-us-open-tennis-stars-need-to-check-their-privilege\/"},"modified":"2020-06-20T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T18:23:00","slug":"whiny-us-open-tennis-stars-need-to-check-their-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/whiny-us-open-tennis-stars-need-to-check-their-privilege\/","title":{"rendered":"#Whiny US Open tennis stars need to check their privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Whiny US Open tennis stars need to check their privilege<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Why can\u2019t these tennis stars be more Open-minded?<\/p>\n

Fans of the sport \u2014 not to mention believers in New York City\u2019s comeback \u2014 got the best news<\/a> ever on Tuesday, when the United States Tennis Association announced that the US Open will be played, without fans, in Flushing Meadows starting Aug. 31.<\/p>\n

And unlike Major League Baseball, which has been trapp<\/a>ed in thorny negotiations, and the National Football League, which Dr. Anthony Fauci recently warned is unlikely to be back by fall, the Open\u2019s decision was final and full-throatedly endorsed by Gov. Cuomo.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be held without fans, but we can watch it on TV, and I\u2019ll take that,\u201d Cuomo said. \u201cThe tennis authority is going to be taking extraordinary precautions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fantastic! For a weary population for whom the word \u201ccanceled\u201d has become as regular as \u201cgood morning,\u201d it was a spectacular change of pace.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s one pesky thing standing in tennis\u2019 way: tennis players. The sport\u2019s top stars, who\u2019ve reaped its benefits for years, have been pooh-poohing progress at every step.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s Wimbledon champion, Simona Halep, said after the announcement she likely won\u2019t make the trip<\/a> to Queens. And Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Nick Kyrgios have loudly criticized tennis\u2019 kick-start \u2014 deemed safe by just about every expert \u2014 for weeks.<\/p>\n

During negotiations, current world No. 1 Djokovic called the US Open\u2019s plans \u201cextreme\u201d and \u201cnot sustainable,\u201d complaining that players will have to have smaller entourages of just three people and that all competitors must stay in one or two hotels, or a rented house nearby, in Queens.<\/p>\n

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Marcus Rashford of Manchester United is not only ready to play again without fans in the stands, he has used his platform to help needy children hit by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe 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,\u201d Djokovic whined.<\/p>\n

Of course, it also means no lavish dinners at Nobu and no relaxing nights in one of Djokovic\u2019s two Soho condos worth a combined $10 million. After three months under a shelter-in-place order, trapped in stuffy apartments, New Yorkers do not sympathize with the Serb.<\/p>\n

Nadal, last year\u2019s US champ, has expressed more reasonable reservations about the safety of New York, one of the world\u2019s hardest-hit cities, even though the Big Apple has worked hard to reverse our April peak.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you [ask] me today, I will say, \u2018No,\u2019\u2009\u201d he told the AP in early June. \u201cIn a couple of months? I don\u2019t know. Hopefully, \u2018Yes\u2019 \u2026 but we need to wait probably until we have more clear information about how the virus evolves and how the situation is going to be in New York in a couple of months.\u201d<\/p>\n

The world No. 2 did not, however, speak about any nagging fears over playing the French Open, which moved its original May dates to a mere two weeks after the US Open due to the pandemic. Nadal has won in Paris a record 12 times, and at 34-years-old is much likelier to win there again than score a fifth US Open victory.<\/p>\n

Much harder to listen to is the Australian spitfire, Kyrgios, who, although he\u2019s one of tennis\u2019 most scintillating talents, is perhaps its biggest baby.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople that live in the US of course are pushing the Open to go ahead,\u201d he said on Twitter<\/a>. \u201c\u2009\u2018Selfish\u2019 I\u2019ll get my hazmat suit ready for when I travel from Australia and then have to quarantine for 2 weeks on my return.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s calling us<\/em> selfish?<\/p>\n

I\u2019d wager Kyrgios was the selfish one when he retired from a 2017 Wimbledon match with an \u201cinjury\u201d only to go clubbing in London with two women that same night. Or last May, when he tweeted that the French Open \u201cabsolutely sucks\u201d and then withdrew shortly after citing \u201cillness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Contrast all these spoiled millionaires with 22-year-old British soccer player Marcus Rashford of Manchester United. Not only has the beloved phenom returned to the field with his team to the delight of fans around the globe, he\u2019s used his platform to help hungry kids during this crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to be the voice for those 200,000 children who have no choice but to skip meals today,\u201d Rashford tweeted last week. \u201cI refuse to give up.\u201d<\/p>\n

His powerful campaign prompted a policy change \u2014 and a phone call \u2014 from Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Meanwhile, in New York, with millions of people still out of work and craving some uplift, we have rich tennis players absolutely flabbergasted that they\u2019re being asked to \u2026 play tennis.<\/p>\n

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Former tennis pro Jimmy Connors tweeted in 2018 that he \u201cwould have played at 12 noon in the Sahara\u201d to have a chance to win the US Open\u2019s $3.5 million prize.<\/span>WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two years ago, when wimpy athletes were railing against the heat at the US Open, former world No. 1 Jimmy Connors tweeted: \u201cTo have a chance to play for 3.5 million I would have played at 12 noon in the Sahara.\u201d<\/p>\n

Right on, Jimmy. Tennis, a sport played on six continents, on several surfaces in different climates, is all about adaptation and rising to the occasion. And the pandemic is the biggest occasion of them all.<\/p>\n

ESPN\u2019s Patrick McEnroe is on point when he says that the tennis royalty is more focused on the green in their bank accounts than the green of American hardcourts.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t go by what Nadal and Djokovic say,\u201d he told Tennis.com, insisting that plenty of players will show up in August. \u201cThey\u2019re the rich getting richer and their views are skewed.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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