Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has did not get better absolutely from a decrease again harm that means he joins Roger Federer in lacking the 2021 Australian Open; Ashleigh Barty will companion US Open semi-finalist Jennifer Brady within the ladies’s doubles
Final Up to date: 30/12/20 5:51pm
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has withdrawn from the 2021 Australian Open because of harm
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has joined Roger Federer in withdrawing from the 2021 Australian Open.
Six-time champion Federer pulled out earlier this week as he continues to work his means again to health from two knee operations earlier this 12 months, whereas Frenchman Tsonga joined him after failing to get better absolutely from a decrease again harm.
The 35-year-old has not performed since retiring from his first-round match at Melbourne Park in January when trailing Alexei Popyrin.
“Regardless of nice progress in latest months, I’m nonetheless not in a position to play in competitors,” Tsonga, a 2008 finalist in Melbourne, wrote in a social media put up.
“In settlement with the medical workforce, the Australian Open is subsequently compromised this 12 months.
“I’m trying ahead to getting again on a tennis court docket, however I’ve to be affected person … Even when not going to Australia this 12 months is a heartbreaker.”
The match will start in Melbourne on February 8 after being delayed by three weeks because of Australia’s strict border guidelines to curb the unfold of coronavirus.
Ashleigh Barty will companion American Jennifer Brady within the ladies’s doubles
In different information, ladies’s world No 1 Ashleigh Barty will companion US Open semi-finalist Jennifer Brady in doubles on the Australian Open in a high-profile pairing between high singles gamers.
Hsieh Su-Wei and Barbora Strycova, who misplaced the 2020 remaining, are the top-ranked ladies’s duo for the Grand Slam.
Rajeev Ram and Britain’s Joe Sailsbury will return to defend their males’s doubles title with the sector headlined by the top-ranked Colombian duo of Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah, who received the Wimbledon and US Open trophies final 12 months.
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