player of australian tennis Nick Kyrgios announced on Saturday evening that he will not participate in the US Open, scheduled from 31 August to 13 September in New York city, because pandemic of sars coronavirus.

" I won't play this year at the US Open. This hurts me to the bottom... But I do this for people, for my Australians, for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have lost their lives, for all of you ", he said in a video posted on Twitter.