adminWASHINGTON. — Australian top seed Samantha Stosur, defending Washington Open tennis champion Sloane Stephens and German teen star Alexander Zverev are setting aside Zika virus fears to compete at the Rio Olympics.
But Sam Querrey, who upset world number one Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon, isn’t going to Brazil because it just isn’t that big a deal to him. Differing views over the mosquito-carried Zika virus and the rash of recent tennis withdrawals from Rio came out on Monday, on day one of the ATP and WTA event, the first hardcourt stop on the path to the US Open.
“It’s not something you want to take lightly,” Stosur said after beating Russian qualifier Alla Kudryavtseva 6-3, 6-0. — AFP.
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