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The US Open withdrawal list gets longer by the day

It’s hard to keep up with all the US Open withdrawals announced every day and we can’t say it’s a surprise. Less than a week ago, the Grand Slam proudly stated that nine of the Top 10 WTA players would headline the field, but since then we have all too often been hearing about new withdrawals.

Shortly after the US Open’s announcement, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova informed the tennis world that she would not be traveling to New York because of coronavirus concerns, then Top 10 players Kiki Bertens and Elina Svitolina pulled out, alongside Barbora Krejcikova, and today the USTA revealed that doubles No.