This week’s story of the 149th-ranked player on the ATP Tour, Yannick Maden, is an example of the global problems that tennis players are facing amid the coronavirus outbreak
The only thing on Yannick Maden’s agenda at the beginning of last week was tennis, yet instead he found himself caught up in the rapidly shifting foreign policy of a world changed by coronavirus.
Ranked 149th on the ATP, Maden planned his travel to Nur-Sultan, the capital city of Kazakhstan, to compete in a €48k ATP Challenger event. Doubts were already swirling around the tournament as he considered whether to take his flight – a German ATP tournament supervisor had already recused himself from the event – but Kazakhstan had yet to record a significant number of cases so the decision seemed to be simple.
Written by Tumaini Carayol
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/mar/15/tennis-coronavirus-outbreak-professional-tours-shutdown under the title “Tennis players face a difficult future as non-stop tours shut down”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
