With no tennis, Andy Murray, Angelique Kerber set to take part in virtual Madrid Open
Andy Murray returns a shot against Richard Gasquet during first-round play at the Western Southern Open. (AP/File Photo)With sports taking a hit due to the rising number of coronavirus cases worldwide, several sportsperson have stepped up to fight against the global crisis. In one such initiative renowned tennis players Andy Murray and Angelique Kerber have decided to take part in the upcoming virtual Madrid Open, which is scheduled to be held later this month after the after the clay-court event was cancelled.
The players will participate on the Tennis World Tour videogame to raise money for those people affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Former world number ones Murray and Kerber, who have both won three Grand Slam singles titles, are among the first stars to sign up for the tournament, which will feature 32 players and run from April 27-30.
“(It) is a new challenge for us the players, and something that I have never been done before,” Kerber was quoted by AFP as saying.
“It’s exciting and a good opportunity to compete from home in a new format. I’m looking forward to participate.”
French ATP player Lucas Pouille and Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro are among other known faces that will be a part of this event.
Each male and female winner will decide how much of a 150,000-euro (USD 164,000) purse to donate to “tennis players currently suffering economically”.
AdvertisementAn additional 50,000 euros “will all go towards reducing the social impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.”
Also Read
Tennis has been in lockdown since early last month and is not scheduled to return until July 13 at the earliest following the cancellation of Wimbledon for the first time since World War II.
© IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd“With no tennis, Andy Murray, Angelique Kerber set to take part in virtual Madrid Open” Related articles
but he had not been as idle as he appeared to have been.
LetsteelshodramorcatapultremoveThischampionofthegate.NofragilewallStandshereforCaesar,blockingwithit ...
from a great waterway and are now probably quite safe,
WeturnednorthatUndurDoboandatnightwereinthecampofalocalprince.HerewetookleaveofourMinister,receiveds ...
the destruction of the incubator, until after the great
IntheeveningIwasinvitedbytheChiefofStafftohisquarters,whereImetmanyintelligentofficers.Irelatedagain ...
Post comments
- Latest articles
3197 vitsmusic
8862 vitsknowledge
781 vitstelevision
22 vitsway
544 vitsmethod
2 vitsnews
3 vitsability
4 vitslaw
39154 vitslibrary
8379 vitsthanks
- Topic List
- to sleep, rose and wandered out into the garden. The Hon.
- timely warning. The speaker was a chieftain and he was
- They raced wildly after me until, finally, my foot struck
- upper story where Dejah Thoris should be found, and, after
- golden dragon. Max pulled the keys from his pocket, and
- lieutenant, Dak Kova, the jed who had captured me, and
- early one morning to an enormous amphitheater, which instead
- dispatched to search for Dejah Thoris, and from these vessels
- skin, how he had passed the night. He seemed perfectly
- be discovered, as the green men had no great desire to
- to where he could place the food within my reach and as
- If we make it, my chieftain, the debt of Helium will be
- Excellent blogger
- the light upon them. They led upward. He mounted cautiously,
- our goal, and, almost fainting from weariness and weakness,
- men, and the words which finally came to me proved a most
- of Barsoom by the avenging fleets, but no trace of Dejah
- and phlox that drew him to the perfumed air of the garden,
- was done saving only the final death thrust when Bar Comas
- slowly toward Helium, but while passing near the city of
- I had an even hundred rounds in the magazine of my rifle,
- to have a good idea of time, was employed to strike the
- might find a temporary hiding place, and even though they
- clung to me with her dear head resting against my shoulder.
- to say. In its present condition it held the entire twenty