August Richard Pagliaro 08/26/2020

Kei Nishikori Tests Negative for Covid, but Pulls out of US Open

Kei Nishikori has tested negative for Covid-19, but the former US Open runner-up has decided to skip the 2020 US Open saying that he does not have time to get fit for the best-of-five format at the Open, which begins on Monday.“I am happy to announce that I have tested negative for Covid,” wrote Nishikori on his app, Keisapp.com. “I will slowly pick up my practice schedule tomorrow. Having said that, I have decided to skip the US Open this year. After such a long break I feel that returning in a best of five long-match setting is not smart until I am fully ready to do so.”

2014 runner up Kei Nishikori recovered from the coronavirus but decided to withdraw from the US Open. pic.twitter.com/MostNq1CV3
— José Morgado (@josemorgado) August 26, 2020

Nishikori plans to start on the clay, in Kitzbuhel, which begins before Roland Garros, on 8 September. ]]>

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Richard Pagliaro is Tennis Now Managing Editor. He is a graduate of New York University and has covered pro tennis for more than 35 years. Richard was tennis columnist for Gannett Newspapers in NY, served as Managing Editor for TennisWeek.com and worked as a writer/editor for Tennis.com. He has been TennisNow.com managing editor since 2010.