the historical tennis player American Serena Williams was finally included this Wednesday in the list of participants in the US Open, the fourth and final Grand Slam of the year. Another addition to the list of stars who will be present at the tournament is Serbian Novak Djokovic notwithstanding he could not enter the country by order of the United States after refusing to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.

The youngest of the Williams sisters, who won the first of her six titles in New York in 1999, is aiming to win a new Grand Slam to reach the record of 24 which, for now, bears the name of Margherita Corte. The star The American celebrated the last of her 23 majors at the 2017 Australian Open when the tennis player was pregnant.

After her injuries and some problems kept her off the pitch, her most recent US Open title arrived 2014. After several years, Serena will play the US Open again from 2021 he couldn’t dispute it because his body needed to recover from the hamstring injury he sustained.

Williams, a former world number one, returned to singles at Wimbledon only last month after a year sidelined for injuries in which she was eliminated in the first round by the Frenchwoman. Harmony Tan.

For his part, Djokovic, recent winner of Wimbledon, where he collected his seventh title of the great English and his 21st major, is also on the roster of the tournament which will be played from 29 August to 11 September.

However, their the presence is in doubt since the three-time winner of Flushing Meadows will not be able to enter the country because he has not been vaccinated against covid-19, a sine qua non condition that all foreigners intending to enter the United States must meet.

“According to the rules of the Grand Slam, all eligible players are automatically entered in the fields of the main table of singles for men (ATP) and women (WTA) according to the ranking 42 days before the first Monday of the event “, reads a statement United States Tennis Association.

“The US Open doesn’t have a vaccination mandate for players, but will respect the position of the United States government with regard to travel to the country for non-US citizens who are not vaccinated “, the organization of the last added Grand Slam of the year.

Among those who will return to the Grand Slam scene, however, is the world number one, the Russian Daniil Medvedev, who will return to the US Open to defend his crown. Medvedev, his countrymen and Belarusians were excluded from Wimbledon due to the war with Ukraine.

In this sense, the organizers of the US Open will open the doors to them, aeven if they will not be able to do so by representing their national flag.