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Carla Suarez Navarro, of Spain, reacts after losing a point against Hungary's Timea Babos, in the first round of the US Open tennis tournament, Tuesday, August 27, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo / Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
In the latest example of a player fined several thousand dollars at a Grand Slam tournament for what tennis officials consider a lack of effort, the Spanish Carla Suárez Navarro, the 28th seed, was paid $ 40,000 to the US Open Thursday, two days after she was withdrawn from her. first round match with a low back injury.
She was to raise $ 58,000 as the first-round loser in singles at Flushing Meadows.
But the tournament's referee, Soeren Friemel, said that Suárez Navarro, who can appeal the ruling, "failed to meet the professional standards required" and was therefore punished for breaking the rule of first round performance. She stopped playing after losing the first set of her match against Timea Babos by a score of 6-2.
The Grand Slam Board introduced the rule before the 2018 season to discourage players who participate in injured tournaments from retiring in first-round matches.
Suárez Navarro also retired from a hard-field tournament match in Toronto earlier this month.
"These are not the easiest weeks for me with back pain" tweeted Thursday. "We did our best to be ready and play our heart, but it really got worse during my opening match in New York."
In July, the American player Anna Tatishvili received her award at the French Open, when the Grand Slam Board canceled her fine of about $ 50,000 for a 6-0 and 6-1 loss to French Open. It was his first tournament since October 2017.
Bernard Tomic was fined a total of $ 55,000 at Wimbledon last month after losing three rounds in the first round, which lasted only 58 minutes.
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DOUBLE TROUBLE
Naomi Osaka would be happy to play in mixed doubles with Kei Nishikori for Japan at the 2020 Toyko Olympics.
One problem: apparently, the reigning US Open Open champion is not really a doubles player.
After Osaka's singles win on Thursday – with Colin Kaepernick and Kobe Bryant staring – she said "anyone who knows my doubles record" knows she's not really an expert.
She has not played a women's doubles game at the tour since 2017 … and she went 0-5 this season.
Nishikori announced last week that he planned to play in singles and men's doubles in Tokyo, but was not sure of playing in mixed, as it could mean too much tennis in hot and humid weather. But, he added that he would talk to Osaka at one point.
They are friends and Osaka said their partnership in Tokyo would be "historic".
"I would definitely play with him," Osaka said. "I'd just need to double for the first time in my life because you can not play mixed doubles with Kei Nishikori and lose in the first round of the Tokyo Olympics. like, I would cry, in fact, I would cry for losing a doubles match. "
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SET WILL
The fact that Serena Williams came back to beat Caty McNally, 17, at the US Open after dropping her first set should not have been a surprise: nobody in the history of the Professional tennis has been as good as Williams in this kind of game.
It turns out that Williams actually wins more Grand Slam matches than she loses after being shot at a set.
His 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 victory over McNally in the second round at Flushing Meadows improved Williams' career record in major tournaments to 42-40 after losing a set – the only woman in the world. 39th Open 50 year old who can boast of a winning record in such situations, according to the WTA.
The only other active player to win more than 25 of these victories is her older sister, Venus, who has 28.
In all main draw matches, Williams is 97-107 after giving up the first set, a .475 winning percentage that leads active players. Next on the list? Maria Sharapova at .390, 83-130.
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