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Coronavirus: Will 2020 US Open survive escalating health crisis?

The US Open is, for the moment, still on. And yet there is increasing pessimism within tennis that the tournament can survive the United States' escalating health crisis.

On Tuesday, the US reported more than 60,000 new coronavirus cases: a new daily record.

Cases in New York have fallen sharply since April, but concerns over quarantine - both on arrival, and when travelling on to Europe to prepare for the French Open - have not yet been allayed.

World number six Stefanos Tsitsipas could speak for many when he says: "I am 50:50."

"I personally would go and play, but if things get worse and our health is in danger, then the US Open and everyone involved should suspend the event for this year," the 21-year-old told Sportsworld on the BBC World Service.