"US Open has been fighting for two years to get exemptions" - Sandgren feels US Open could have done more to let Djokovic play

| by Kadir Macar

Tennys Sandgren is one of the players that was doing his best to support Novak Djokovic in his participation at the 2022 US Open, but unsuccessfully.

After the 21-time Grand Slam champion officially announced that he will not be participating at the 2022 US Open, Tennys Sandgren spoke to L'Equipe and expressed his thoughts about how the USTA acted in the matter of Novak Djokovic's entry to the United States.

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“We didn’t really try," Sandgren said. "They didn’t try to get an exemption for Novak. For the past two years, they’ve done everything they could to make the tournament happen. They fought hard to make it happen. But now, for Novak, their speech is: “We have to apply what the government tells us, we can’t do anything. It’s not coherent."

“I know that a player is not more important than a tournament, but it was worth a try, wasn’t it? The US Open has been fighting for two years to get exemptions," Sangred expressed.

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